Soul in the Thread (2022)

Persecution and resilience, erasure and struggle, unpaid, forced and unrecognised labour characterise women’s history.  The feminine or anything perceived as such was gazed at rather than understood. An archetype to either worship or annihilate, use or protect, love or hate. Often, the two extremes can go hand in hand. Love Madonna and kill the whore (love her first, too).  Soul in the Thread: Codes Past and Present, invites you on a visual odyssey into the history of women’s struggle and creative expression in the face of adversity. Using embroidery as a tool for storytelling, Soul in the Thread echoes the carpet weavers, who, to this day, are overwhelmingly women who use motifs to express their deepest desires, wishes, and burdens, in often exploitative work conditions. It is also a radical stance against a fully digital, crypto-capitalist art market driven by investments rather than substance.

An Exhibition by Nisan Yetkin for Spit it Out

Co-produced by Léa Luiz De Oliveira and Bee Asha / UK / The Alchemy Experiment