BOM x sā Ladakh Biennale
sā Ladakh Biennale
Some ruins are held together by stone; others by the people who keep their stories alive. For Invisible Threads, Zahara Batool brings together local women artisans to weave, knit, crochet and embroider fragments across the remains of Hunderman Village. Presented with Burgoyne Original Masters as part of the SĀ Ladakh Biennale, the work explores women’s craft, textile traditions and the preservation of inherited knowledge.
Invisible Threads
Zahara Batool’s installation Invisible Threads is the coming together of local women artisans weaving, knitting and assembling embroidered textile pieces into an act of repair. The installation will stretch across and cover the outer surfaces of Hunderman Village’s fragile architecture with individual handmade craft pieces created by the participating women artisans such as embroidered pieces, crocheted forms, and knitted fragments on the collapsed areas of the ruin. With varying densities in the woven textile interventions, these women speak of both the past and future in one breath with acts of repair in not just space but also in the fabric of time.
