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Mapping my own Connection by Maëlle Gross

2023 · Edition of 1

For her solo exhibition Malefica at the Centre d’art contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, CACY, the Swiss artist Maëlle Gross engaged with the figure of the witch. The focus was not on the fantastic or demonic figure but on the witch as a projection surface for social exclusion – and at the same time as a symbol of knowledge, self-determination, and resistance. Textile works, videos, banners, and a sound sculpture formed a multi-layered, physically tangible exhibition space.

Two large-format rugs formed central elements of the exhibition. The round white rug Helen carries a poem whose characters emerge as relief from the surface. The script is based on an alphabet that the Swiss spiritualist Hélène Smith developed at the end of the 19th century for communication with an extraterrestrial world she described. Language here becomes material, structure, and spatial experience.

For the exhibition Déplier les mondes at Labanque in Béthune, Helen was later realized again in a smaller format. The spiral-arranged script fits into an exhibition about invisible worlds, spiritualist voices, and alternative forms of perception.

The second rug is titled Mapping my own connexion. Its colorful, irregular shape represents an abstract cartography of the placenta – an organ of connection, protection, and transmission. The work is conceived not only as an image but as a walkable and usable space: a surface where people can lie down, read, reflect, and come together. The rug, made of pure virgin wool, measures 300 × 250 centimeters and was tufted with dyed wool.

With these works, Maëlle Gross frees the rug from its purely functional or decorative role. It becomes a carrier of images, a space of language, and a social territory – an art form that can be not only viewed but physically experienced.

Ruckstuhl supported the art project with a material sponsorship and thus contributed to part of the textile production.

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pure virgin wool

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Robot tufting

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