Weavers
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Weaving carries social and historic resonance that has in this work - been explored through the body.
This practice moves between threads: the inherited and the invented, the knots that hold and the ones we choose to untie. The dance becomes a loom, the body a shuttle, a surface where memories are interlaced.
Photo by Arnaud Beleen
Garage 29, Brussels residency 2022
Across cultures, weaving has always been more than craft: it is a choreography of hands, arms, and breath, a rhythm carried by the body.
The loom and the weaver move together, each gesture inscribing memory into material. In this sense, weaving is not only textile-making but also a bodily practice of continuity, relation, and survival. This project is an exploration of weaving as both practice and metaphor.
The practice started in 2020; three Sámi dancers gathered in a residency in Dearna, exploring the social and cultural worlds around Sámi shoebands and other textile traditions, while also carrying the experience of living between cultures.
This practice embodies stories and silences that cannot always be spoken, leaving a space where voices are discovered anew.
Through weaving, we search what remains of ancestry in the body itself: a physical memory that takes form as a woven band — an anchor,
a thread, and a method to re-link to