Big Hoop

Big Hoop

By taking an embroidery hoop and its contents as a starting point, blowing it up to a monumental scale, this work, titled Big Hoop, will make the tools and labour of a traditionally timid female activity, unashamedly visible. This work intends to play with humour and absurdity to lure the audience, while questioning the framing of femininity within processes of labour. Our collaboration creates a work of contrasts; contrasts of material, of scale and of tone. The hoop will be intricately fabricated from patterned sheet metal, that is hammered into shape and then stitched together by welding. This metal form contains a delicate tapestry of exposed thread and minute embroidered stitches. This contrast of materials and scale of detailing, creates a layered visual impact that hooks the audience from afar and then draws them in to look closer. Our Big Hoop is placed into an installation of furniture-like pieces by Teresa Fernandez Pello and Delphine Lejeune, creating all together a spacial patchwork dealing with collapsing structures and tracing time.