T&M supported research-creation, April, 2025
With Géographie de mon héritage in it’s not somebody else’s problem, it’s our problem! I set myself the task of immersing myself in my earliest memory involving a collective trauma.
Chernobyl, 26 April 1986.
I was 12 years old. (…) The bedroom of one of these childhoods, a place of pure innocence, where you play without knowing, without worrying about anything other than the stories you make up inside. Fragments from the outside, from the adult world, arrive jerkily through the radio or television. The words/sorrows of adults pass by without really stopping because they pretend that “everything is fine”. And yet it is clear that everything is wrong.(…)
In France, the official story is: ‘The radioactive cloud stopped at the border. Everything is fine.’ Pop, this installation is definitely flashy, fueled by what constitutes me.
Two narratives are intertwined within it. On the bed and on the headboard, an indeterminate determination is at play, organizing a lineage and disorganizing it at the same time. Together with the legend of the acronyms annotated on the cover, they are the sum of my chaotic thoughts, captured in an attempt to bring some order to them.
As Member of the T&M Cluster since November 2024, I feel so lucky to be part of this wonderful research group. These past few months, I’ve worked closely with Geneviève Moisan and the Tajima Digital Embroidery Machine. One project led to the next, and it just kept going. For my winter session, I developed a body of work incorporating digital embroidery created with Tajima.
I’m happy to share the results of this research-creation, which I presented at the MFA gallery in April 2025, to the cluster community.
textiles + materiality research cluster 