WOUND

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Artist: Caren Garfen

Title: WOUND

Attribution: Wound, 2024, Caren Garfen

Year: 2024

Materials: Cotton, silk threads, 63 vintage cotton spools, pebbles. Hand stitch

Dimensions: 94cm x 65cm x 12cm

Image Statement: Wound consists of sixty-one spools of thread that once belonged to my late mother. These threads intertwine with the tragic narratives of sixty seamstresses who had links to Piotrkow Trybunalski in Poland, the birthplace of my maternal grandmother. Moving to England as a child circa 1912, my grandmother left behind relatives, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. Among them was her cousin, listed as a housewife, who undoubtedly would have sewn in her domestic sphere.