Attrition Art Residency, France

2024

Developed through walking-based research in rural France, this body of work translates vernacular motifs and traces encountered in the surrounding agricultural landscape into embroidered interventions, artist books, and small handmade objects. The project reflects on landscape, memory, and the relationship between official and vernacular visual languages.

Book Interventions

LA SAINTE CHAPELLE

Artist book intervention on an existing publication (La Sainte-Chapelle, CMN, Paris, c.1980). Embroidered motifs derived from the decorative language of the chapel partially displace the original imagery while preserving the structure of the book.

BECAUSE SINCE WE STARTED TO UNBURY WE FORGET

A second intervention on the same publication introduces motifs inspired by local folk ornamentation from the rural region of Pauilhac, creating a dialogue between official architecture and vernacular traditions.

Small Gestures

I WANTED SOMETHING TO UNITE THEN I TOOK MY FEET AND SEWED THEM TO THE EARTH

A series of stitched paper works developed in response to local histories of land cultivation and territorial organisation. The works reflect on landscape, labour, and belonging through minimal embroidered gestures.

EVERY LAND CARRIES BONES

Miniature books printed through letterpress on garlic skins collected from the surrounding fields, functioning as fragile material archives of the site.