Project: TEXT/TEXTILE
Artist: Vita Buivid

November 2022

For her project TEXT/TEXTILE, artist Vita Buivid organised a series of workshops and meetings entitled Crocheting for beginners in critical theory, in which she invited volunteers to work collectively on a large crocheted artwork and discuss themes such as age discrimination. The result, large crocheted panels used to cover every window of the century-old chapel, was presented at the end of 2022.

Each panel featured words referring to the themes being discussed during the gatherings and invited the audience to reflect on assumptions around age and ageing. How has the geranium become a symbol of our inevitable old age? Do we really live longer by eating broccoli every day? What are the political-economic implications of ageing? And how are these still and wrongly reproduced on a societal level? This project attempted to close the gaps in the social fabric of our age.

Read more about the project TEXT/TEXTILE by Vita Buivid.

Vita Buivid currently lives and works in Amsterdam. After graduating from Dnepropetrovsk State University (Ukraine), she moved to Leningrad (now St Petersburg, Russia), where she initially worked with photography and photo-based art. Gradually, she began to integrate textiles, collage techniques and oil paint into her work. As a research-based artist, she reflects on the social and political aspects of ageing, which are inherently intertwined with her personal experiences as an artist.