Mutterkuchen – 01

2018

Embroidery and a knitted basket with unravelled readymade fabric, wooden frame

155 x 70 cm (frame size 55 x 42 cm)

Exhibited at

2018 Group show (featuring three artists), MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Flowery Obscurity, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Collection

Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Mutterkuchen – 01

Do you have somewhere to return to?
If so, was it by accident, or was it decided already?
These embroidered words came to mind when I went to the Immigration Office to apply for a German artist visa. I felt the visa givers believed they had the upper hand over those granted visas.
I dismantled the fabric’s body and wove a basket to catch the fragments that spilt out of it. The bag’s structure is a metaphor for our bodies. From there, it rises again as a word and is embroidered as a return to our own bodies.

Photo by

Aiko Tezuka