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And a pillow will read what is in our heads

2024, Bedsheet, digitally printed photograph on silk, wood, 24 1/4 x 15inches

About the body of work:


Phototextile assemblages and textual artworks reflect Namnoum’s study of the connections between “text” and “textile” and their shared root texere (weave). Passing through space as a needle passes in and out of a piece of fabric, the trace of her path projects an interior cartography, kin to what Giuliana Bruno terms tender mappings. Her paths and their realization into a monograph and quilts that resemble pages recall Michel de Certeau’s comparison of the city to a text, with walking being its punctuation. These desire paths are marked out on the city and the rural landscape using forestry tape that belonged to her grandfather, and are less an expression of pedestrian delinquency than they are etchings of everyday doubts and wantings that trail and arc and stretch out – a sketching of her thoughts onto the margins of a space. She contemplates the space of longing and how the means of materializing her desires may break apart, eluding her as a dream slips away on waking.


The title of this work is quoted from John Berger's Insomniac Poem.

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