INNER LOVE
Attrition Art Residency, France
2024
INNER LOVE explores the artist's book as a site of artistic research where poetic writing, embroidery, found publications, and vernacular knowledge converge. Developed during the Attrition Art Residency in rural France, material intervention transforms existing books into sites of artistic research, where original histories remain visible while new relationships emerge through making.
Book Interventions
LA SAINTE CHAPELLE
An embroidered intervention on an existing publication, where stitching gradually transforms the book's visual and material language.
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
BECAUSE SINCE WE STARTED TO UNBURY WE FORGET
A second intervention on the same publication, replacing original illustrations with hand-embroidered pages inspired by the vernacular visual culture of the Pauilhac region.
[Marcin Idźkowski © 2024]
[Marcin Idźkowski © 2024]
[Marcin Idźkowski © 2024]
Small Gestures
I WANTED SOMETHING TO UNITE THEN I TOOK MY FEET AND SEWED THEM TO THE EARTH
A series of hand-embroidered paper works exploring relationships between landscape and manual making.
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
EVERY LAND CARRIES BONES
Miniature artist books printed on garlic skins collected on site.
[Marcin Idźkowski © 2024]
[Marcin Idźkowski © 2024]
[Louisa Vergozisi © 2025]
Participatory
GARLIC NOTES
Workshop exploring letterpress printing on garlic, skins using local field materials to create small site-responsive gestures.
Specifications
Artist’s books (hand embroidery on paper)
Sewn paper
Letterpress on garlic skin
Variable dimensions
2024