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A Resting Sequence
installation with handwoven tapestries, wood and fabric
exhibition view 'leerstoff'
Eisenbergerfabrik, Gmünd
2023

A Resting Sequence

Embodied time
the tissue remembers
the sensory aspects lengthen the minutes
rushing through the hours
my fingers are dividing the threads
the fingertips thinking about
what the fingertips in centuries
before their existence
might have corresponded with

in the fabric of things
in-between the loopholes
in-between productivity and rest
there lies a time
not quite sure what to do with itself
not quite ready to jump on
another thought, another goal,
another destination

maybe dreamtime
maybe just there is

a fabric hangs and dries
quietly in the sun
only the wind is able to move it
all the steady movements of
putting the threads into place
go unnoticed into the background
what stays is a moment

a momentum
of wind and sun and textile

I imagine a scene
from the factory days
when people were having breaks
in the yard.
Chitter chatter and maybe lunch packets.
A smoke until the clock strikes.
Who are the protagonists in the backyard now?

Valerian
Thistle
Fleabane
Himalayan Balsam
(sometimes the cat, hypnotized by the valerian)
Red currants
and the sun – doing it’s dance amongst the brittle walls

glistening sunlight and damp shadows
inviting me for a brief moment
to take a seat
and taking it in.

appreciation for everything what’s going on here.
bees are crazy as ever
butterflies landing on the floor
the wood is aching
the walls a breathing
the house doing it’s best to stand up straight.

 
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                              ©Veronika Behringer
Fair Little Friends
site specific installation
with plantdyed and woven cottonstripes
exhibition view Rivulets
Engi, Isafjördur, Iceland
 2023





















  


What comes up during the night?
 site specific textile installation at Vienna Löwygrube
textiles dyed with fermented indigo in resist technique and madder root
2022
























Stormy Winds in April
site specific installation
plant dyed cotton
Vienna, 10th District
2021












 





 


FOREST BLANKET
 site specific textile installation at Tuo Tuo Arts, Finland and Löwygrube, Vienna Austria
2021 and 2022



















  



from a shell to a ship
site specific textile installation 
at the exhibition Verspielte Zeit
Kirchberg am Wagram
2020























dreaming of a house
textile installation and reading performance
at the exhibition unfinished sympathy
Wildgarten, Vienna
2019













 

lying under the cherry tree
textile installation
silkscreenprints on cotton
exhibition schier/heiter
Heiligenkreutzerhof, Vienna
2016