Laura Somogyi - Homo Suens
Homo suens = the person who sews.
I view myself as a person who sews, under the shadow thrown by great painting. Sewing means personal ties for me and at the same time a creative activity, which parallels drawing. (lines, thread connections, etc,)
Ever since the year 2000, sewing, the creation of thread installations and thread drawings have been my focus. Since then I have been approaching the subject from different angles. I have collected well-known works of art, which depict individuals int he process of sewing. I see myself as part of this procedure, this being something like an artist’s self portrait, an artist’s statement. The picture and its title in many respects sum up this development of ten years.
The original copy of the foto is part of my collection. (F. Goya, Portrait Huán Ibanez Bermudez de Ceán’s wife)
Two thread installations
Title: Sweatshop-lace.
They are variations of the sweatshop subject/ project. The thread installations themselves are drawings made of thread, detached from their original bearing surface and thus freely floating in space. Sweatshop is to mean a workshop which makes people sweat; a place where many people are doing monotonous work, in the same space, under bad conditions, But even when circumstances are less dramatic, individual creativity and personality are included in an enjoyment of the relationship between the sewer and the person to wear the garment. When I collected the images of sewers, I always seemed to be confronted with this image, this visual effect: the sewers bend over their sewing machines in endless rows, and that this same motive seems to repeat itself eternally, and I confronted this motive with the allusion to this fine handmade technique as represented by lace.
Download the opening speech here.
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