Of        nets

Participatory installation

Variable dimensions and materials: ropes, cutting and writing tools, prints and handwritten notes

2024

Nets can support, carry, but also keep away and separate, just as social networks can be used to connect, to care, but also to gatekeep and exclude. Structurally, a safety net and a wire fence have a lot in common—while reflecting two very different visions of creating safety/security: through solidarity or through exclusion.

The way a net is constructed determines its structure and behavior. Similarly, different social structures give rise to different ways of forming relationships—and vice versa. Can the physical object then help us reflect on the interpersonal?

In workshops, using of our bodies as anchor points allows us to experience how each person’s actions affect the tension of the whole. Visitors can then continue to weave the nets through participatory installations, guided by questions and excerpts from the publication One Safety Net (2022).

In this way, I offer to collectively reflect on the connections between our relationships, our social structures, and our ability to feel safe. Thoughts can be shared with others by leaving notes on the nets or walls.

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Workshop at La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, November 2025 (images 1-3). Participatory installation at Galerie 23, Hamburg, July 2025 (4-6). Workshops and open studio during a short residency at Arbeitszimmer thealit, Bremen, November 2024 (7-9).