SÍSIFO, 2022

performance-intervention, 03’39’’ video Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

In this performance-intervention I carry an exaggerated amount of rough material from construction sites across the city of Chemnitz, a city known for its formerly flourishing textile industry. I chose a former Textile dye Factory and an abandoned textile store to be the support for sculptures made of Shibori, a traditional artisanal dye technique from Japan. This technique almost vanished the country because the Industrial Revolution period. Somehow I was willing to see the confront and at the same time the dialogue between the city and the technique, both striked by the same Industry in different ways. Like past and present facing each other and visualizing each other’s possibilities of future.

In Sísifo, I celebrate handcrafts and cultural traditions while, at the same time, I become emotionally and physically aware of the struggles that comes from the same repetitive making process of production, and the frustrating attempt to hold, by myself, a cultural memory that might still disappear one day.

After all, what motivated Sysiphus to push his rock up every time?