Sewing machine parts, fishing line, video, sound projectors, wash tub, water, thread, bed linens, recycled metal refrigerator shelves, sewing machine, table. Dimensions variable.
Photo credit (Maher Mahood)
Infinite Line deals with the violent manifestations of colonial capitalism specifically as they relate to women and their exploited labour including in the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. The installation has 4 parts: hanging fragments of a dismantled old sewing machine with video projected on the floor, an aluminium wash tub filled with water with video projected onto the base of the tub, an infinite line sewn onto fabric in a sewing machine on a table and a soundscape. The piece also involves a performance by the artist who stitches a seemingly neverending line. The recycled bed linen strips that the infinite line extends onto grow over time, forming billowing layers of fabric, overwhelming the viewer and symbolising the vastness of women’s invisible labour.
Photo credit: Maher Mahood (black and white image)