Meandering utopias

Exhibited during the Mandra Cultural Tour 2025, Meandering utopias uses materials that are kind to the ecosystem and site-specific. With its loose warp threads in the middle, the weaving mirrors the meandering of the Mandra stream which runs across the whole village providing different services to the humans and its other citizens. I was involved in the activism for the protection of this stream and got to spend a lot of time on its shores, volunteering to survey all the species that inhabit it. I foraged materials like berries, nettles and grasses and integrated them either by dying the threads, spinning thread with them or incorporating them in the weft. The exhibition took place on the shores of the stream where I conducted two guided walks with the public, presenting the different elements that stood out for me about the stream and giving a talk on the exhibited work. I challenged myself to create something that also gave back to the space, and that is why the grasses I chose were full of seeds, so that when the wind swayed the fabric, the seeds would be dispersed along the shores.