Circus

In line with my ongoing research connecting textiles to public space, this object explores how everyday materials can generate spaces of attention, play, and social cohesion. 

The project repurposes a worn trampoline structure, relocating it from domestic gardens to interior spaces. Collected from private gardens, the trampoline frame is reimagined as a form that occupies a threshold: a mobile intermediary capable of moving between the intimacy of the home and collective contexts. Constructed from electrical conduits, reclaimed ropes, and a circular weaving inspired by robust netting techniques, the piece becomes a hybrid platform, between furniture and active sculpture: an open form elevated on legs, like the plan of a new chessboard or the shell of a snail. It can be climbed, balanced upon, or simply lain on.

The process of transforming the stretched textile references an elementary figure from string games (caterpillar & diamond), as described by Donna Haraway, for whom these practices constitute a way of thinking and transmitting knowledge: motifs circulate from one hand to another, creating connections, narratives, and forms of cohabitation. Here, this reference functions as a conceptual framework rather than a formal model: the object is constructed through gestures, tensions, and reprises, in a continuous logic of experimentation.