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My hands are my tools to fail, and to hold my desire for making.
My practice unfolds through an ongoing negotiation between my hands, materials, and time—shaped by touch, stitching, color, and repetition.
Textiles are transformed into paintings and objects. In my work, performance is an extension of artisanal making: I invite the public to experience gestures from my everyday life, making space for new relations to emerge collectively.
Care appears in the attention given to materials, to bodies, and to the time things need. Failure is not something to overcome, but something I stay with. Both are embedded in the way I work.
What remains is a state, not just an outcome.
Pati Sayuri is a Brazilian–Okinawan artist working across textiles, painting, and participatory performance. Her practice is grounded in slow, material-based processes and unfolds between individual making and collective situations. Sayuri holds an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus Universität–Weimar and has participated in international residencies and exhibitions in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
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