Circus

In continuity with my research linking textile practices to public space, this project explores the possibility of creating spaces of attention, play, and cohesion.

The project repurposes a used trampoline structure, shifting it from the domestic garden to the interior space. Collected from private households, the trampoline frame is reactivated into a form capable of circulating between the intimacy of the home and more collective contexts.

Built using a robust technique of circular weaving, the piece becomes a play platform: an open, tensioned net set on legs, like the layout of a new chessboard. One can climb onto it, search for balance, or simply lie down.

The process of transforming the tensioned textile refers to an elementary figure of string games (caterpillar and diamond), as discussed by Donna Haraway, for whom these practices are ways of thinking and transmitting knowledge: patterns that move from hand to hand, producing interpersonal narratives. The object is built through gestures, tensions, and reworking, following a logic of continuous experimentation.