LEEK! LEEK!

Gelbes Haus Art Residency, Switzerland
2025–26

LEEK! LEEK! explores the visual language of the contemporary city through walking, embroidery, installation, and participation. Developed during a three-month residency in Lucerne, the project translates urban markings, signs, and everyday visual traces into an embroidered symbolic vocabulary. Approaching the city as a field of latent language, it invites participants to interpret symbols, compose words, and generate new relationships through a shared process of meaning-making.

Works

The White, Green & Pink Series

A series of embroidered paper works translating urban markings, architectural details, and found symbols into hand-stitched forms.

The Orange Alphabet

An embroidered alphabet developed from street markings and organised as a speculative writing system inspired by the structure of the Greek script.

Participatory

Goals for Life

Participants selected embroidered symbols and shared personal interpretations, allowing individual readings to accumulate into a collective network of meanings.

Specifications

Hand embroidery on cardstock

Variable dimensions

2026