VILLA STUCK & LEE MINGWEI
THE MENDING PROJECT – Interactive Art Installation
The Mending Project is an interactive conceptual installation in which Lee Mingwei use very simple elements—thread, color, sewing—as points of departure for gaining insights into the relationships among self, other, and immediate surroundings. Villa Stuck invites seamstresses engage in conversations with visitors while repairing or refinishing their garments as an act of sharing between them and a stranger.
TEXTILE REPAIRING / Live-sewn visitor gifts / Munich 2021
Dance performance during mending
“The act of mending takes on emotional value. It also constitutes an act of sharing between myself and a stranger.”
Work and talk
During exhibition hours, the seamstresses sit at a table, to which visitors could bring various damaged textile articles, choose a color of thread, watch mending their article.
Talking and gifting
Nora Gres created small textile jewellery gifts while talking to the exhibition’s visitors.
“My mending is done with the idea of celebrating the repair, the fabric is even better than before.”