Cvitanovic practices a slow approach to materiality, memory and layers of histories embedded in quotidian objects. Her current project reclaims textiles as a site of care for her familial and cultural histories of textile-based knowledge and aims for sustainability in relationship to the future. Asserting a slow and circular approach to making through repetitive free form stitching, the project rejects neoliberal and patriarchal expectations of production and consumption.
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Cvitanovic conceptualises her use of needlework as a way of drawing attention to hidden labour, and in the context of textiles and the garment industry this is a feminist commentary equally applicable to traditional hierarchies in the art world.
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© Lisa Pang, Recompose / DRAWING WITH THREADS, November 2023