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The Lacemaker's Y(e)arn is a visual conversation between two artists responding to the language of traditional lace construction. Karen Ostrom and Thessia Machado take as their point of departure the culture of Bahia, a state on the northeastern coast of Brazil traditionally known for its fishing villages and lacemaking. Their installation, The Lacemaker's Y(e)arn, is a unique collaboration integrating animation and sound, filtered through traditional lace and a deconstructed fax machine. With this project, the artists create a narrative that speaks of tradition, transition, and obsolescence, the handmade lace and netting mirrored by film and fax-machine technology.
Karen Ostrom commissioned handmade bobbin lace from artisans in Bahia, and exposed these forms on photosensitive paper to make photograms and cyanotypes, created frame by frame. This sequence of images has been animated to produce large-scale video projections. The original lace frames and prints are hung and draped, giving the appearance of film rolls and contact sheets. Thessia Machado created a soundscape for the installation, evoking sounds of the ocean and of lacemaking through a repurposed fax machine run by Arduino microcontroller. In the installation a graphic score travels through a player piano-like device attached to the walls and triggers the sound modules with light patterns.
Karen Ostrom’s work was awarded “Best In Show” in BRIC’s 2016 exhibition, OPEN (C)ALL: Up for Debate, which awarded her exhibition of her work in BRIC House.
Curated by Jenny Gerow, Assistant Curator
Venue Information:
The Project Room, located adjacent to the Gallery in BRIC House is an added resource for video work, BRIC's emerging curator program, small-scale exhibitions and experimental curatorial projects.
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