Ine van Son

For the installation 'SPINNINGS, transitory settlement' I tighten strings in the area. The strings are made of crochet with hans spun wool. They make a system, winding around present attachment points. This way a more or less open inner space arises which offers a kind of protection.

Like a nomad I create this temporary settlement. Using the material available to me: vulnerable, ephemeral. The settlement is temporary. For someone who uses it for a short time, than breaks it down and moves on.

The material has a long history of manufactering clothes, blankets, accommodation. I try to go back in history to the use of textile for creating protection.

The installation is created in situ in commission of Kunstschouw 2017 in windmill De Graanhalm in Burgh Haamstede NL.

A video-impression of this installation you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xTh8RcLgs

Marion Steur passed time in the installation and a poem was born:https://papierenvliegtuig.exto.nl/kunstwerk/248192504_Spinsels.html