On Crafting Humanity.An Interview with Margi Geerlinks, at Home, Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2006, and email June 2008

摘要

I first came across Margi Geerlinks's work in a solo exhibition entitled Crafting Humanity at the Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester (2001). This series of photographic works was also shown in 2006 at the Galerie Caprice Horn in Berlin and indicates how this work continues to hold currency. The series of digitally manipulated photographs includes work that depicts either skin fused with "textile" or "skin" used in place of cloth. In these images, benign textile processes, normally associated with the "homely" and domestic, become vehicles that lead the viewer into both disconcerting and beguiling scenarios: "innocent" knitting suddenly becomes unfamiliar and 1 disturbing when we see a woman 9 knitting herself a baby; a woman appears to be "embroidering" a human ear out of cloth that ls transforms into skin (Figure 1);rnand, remarkably, a boy is being sewn with a domestic sewing machine yet there is no punctured flesh or wounding.