Textile, 160 x 220 cm, 2023

Snatchwork obviously refers to the technique used, patchwork, which involves creating pieces from numerous fabric scraps, often repurposed. Considered a female activity or pastime, needlework and sewing are associated with the domestic sphere to which a vast majority of women have been confined for centuries. It is the ambivalence of this medium, both a symbol of exclusion and a specifically feminine skill, that many female artists have brought to the forefront of the avant-garde scene throughout the 20th century and up to the present day, like Faith Ringgold and her patchwork stories. For her, her art is a visual materialization of who she is.

The hammock, an object that engages the body, can also evoke tropical exoticism, but it is above all a symbol of time that is necessary but can unfortunately sometimes be a luxury: rest.

Snatchwork includes the words snatch: to steal, to swipe, and work: labor. Indeed, rest can be a time that one must know how to seize, to grant oneself, and it can also be a form of work, a work that allows for development, construction, birth. For in rest, an inner work takes place, a gestation; the body is to be born, but in a continuous, perpetual birth. A construction.

The body is thus an inhabited space but does not appear by itself: it is to be born, and once born, must perpetually gather itself to digest the past time and grow or at least evolve, change.

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