2 banners, 385 x 115 cm each
textile (cotton)
Murmur takes a sidestep in this research by focusing it on (primarily classical) stories in which characters, often women, lose their voices. Especially in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the losing - or forcefully taking - of a character’s voice is a recurring motive: by being changed into an animal, they lose their agency and their ability to report of what happened to them. However, in several of these stories, it is through textiles that the women regain this agency: in the tapestry that Philomena weaves to inform her sister Procne, or in the spinning of Arachne’s web.
Murmur has grown from this research. In both a visual and typographical way, the work plays with this notion of losing your voice, or the voice being taken, and sounds slowly dying out.