Thank you for the Legacy is a performative installation honouring a family inheritance, brought to life through a shadow theatre of giant pincushions.

Inside my grandmother's inherited sewing box sat a pincushion. A small cushion set in a metal base, into which needles are pinned. Handcrafted or industrially produced, they can take the form of everyday objects, small animals, fruits, furniture, or feminine figures.
Thank you for the Legacy transforms the pincushion into a creature: from its base emerge long, thin legs of steel, while its cushion becomes its head. Through a play of scale, form and movement, six of these creatures in brushed steel and fabric inhabit the space.
Activated in a shadow theatre, they become the protagonists of a performance. Over a soundtrack composed of sewing recordings, an autofictional narration gives rhythm to the shadows. Behind a screen, my body, using a moving light device, conjures, frames and activates these presences in constant dialogue with the sound.
Between domesticity and resistance, sewing and its tools carry desires, fears, angers and secrets that pass silently through generations of women. How do we give form to the intangibility of such an inheritance?
Thank you for the Legacy sews a narrative from what remains, gives it body, brings it to the stage.