Pozidriv (5 layers scaffolding textile, 2023) Ghent, Belgium

In 2022 I was asked to create a monumental artwork together with a blind artist at S.M.A.K., a reference museum for contemporary arts in Ghent, Belgium. It took me half a year to find a blind artist with enough self confidence to start this crazy project that would push our limits. Willem Moeyersoons is a componist and musician with an interest in visual arts. Despite his restraints, he organizes art shows and sells art. The concept and technique came together when we set up the project. We would tell the story of accepting the visual impairment and the new things you learn. Willem hangs an artwork in his café-gallery in the dark. Just by touching the screw he knows it’s a pozidriv and he finds the corresponding screwdriver. In order to attach an artwork to a facade depicting this, we opted for scaffolding textile as a material. At the same time the scaffolding textile emboddies the renovation of the values of the city. Willem helped attaching the screw to make a picture, analysing a proposition I sewed on textile, touching the big sheets of textile and helping to cut and sew them. In the end, he was holding the monumental sheets at 25 meters high, helping to attach it, in tears.