In my practice, I explore intimacy through a dialogue between drawing and embroidery, focusing on the line as the main element, formally and conceptually. By considering the thread as an expansion of the drawn line and exploring this expansion through transparency and other surfaces and displays, I aim to create an insight about threshold territories, between exterior and interior, public and private.
A sensory relation between my body and the materiality of the process is frequently present, as I aim to maintain the gesture of the continuous line of the drawing in the embroidery. There is also the presence of material experimentation, exploring transparency to investigate ways to show what is happening on the "inside" (back part) of the surface, between what is easily seen and what is more difficult to access - allowing the memory of the process to become visible.
I explore states of intimacy, introspection and the everyday life through observation, imagination and memory, as well as investigate the imagery of the body intertwined in personal and collective narratives. While recognizing the body as the major means of contact with the world, affecting it and being affected by it, I feel that representing people is an attempt to enter into the intimacy of the other and into the possible connections that may result from this contact. The idea of the "thread of life" can mean that each of these bodies represented can expand and intertwine with others, resulting in shared experiences, relating the work with issues of identity, memory, time, feelings and experiences.
