[untitled paper quilt]

2024

Presented at paper_work.doc exhibit at FOFA Gallery (July 22 - September 6, 2024)

[untitled paper quilt] is an exploratory, collaborative work by Eli Bjedov-Stanković and María Andreína Escalona De Abreu. This paper-based work will go through all the stages of creation during the run of the exhibition allowing visitors to witness the process. Leftover paperwork from the gallery and old clothes will be transformed into pulp, which the artists will use to make new paper. The paper will then be treated with the Japanese technique of momigami, making it resistant to water and wind. 

Flirting with performance, this work uses the gallery as a studio, bringing the labour of artistic creation to the forefront; an experiment that brings ideas and techniques untested by the artists into the exhibition. In this way, the work is a celebration of the collaborative and community-oriented nature of papermaking.

Photo credit: Laurence Poirier