The exhibition is organized around a wooden structure that is ten linear meters around a corner. Central to the exhibition’s conceptual concerns are a series of handwoven ratchet straps. They fasten, tether, hoist, bundle, and cinch together found and made objects into sculptural assemblies. The straps, each ten meters in length, carry the history and temporality of their own making: labor measured as a function of changing seasons, moods, stamina (and TV shows streamed and watched). Silks, sewing threads, acrylics, and cottons in hi-visibility colors and compositions move between adornment and utility, décor and gear, craft and manufacture. The textile elements might be viewed as accessories, yet they are also essential to holding the sculptures together. These works are shown alongside other propositions that suspend, dangle, drape, and droop bodies-figured-otherwise, abbreviated through a sleeve or a sausage.

The exhibition addresses the motility and mobility of textiles as both objects-that-move and knowledge-that-is-moved. The works reflect on modes of transmission through carrier-objects and embodied social activities like labor, language, and movement. In what sense do such transmitted forms accessorize our bodies—and when do our bodies become accessories to processes of circulation?

Motile Attachments extends new sculptural logics of gathering—metaphorically, historically, and materially. Together the works propose possible approaches to the social accessory as relational form. It moves.  

Motile Attachments, 2025
Solo exhibition at Pracownia Portretu, Łódź, Poland.

Supported by Research at Central Saint Martins, UAL and the City of Łódź.