Mending (reprise)

Mending is a wall installation that focuses on darning, a stitch used to strengthen a fabric’s worn and broken threads. For Dupré, darning onto fine Washi paper is a profound yet silent performative act of memory, repairing a broken intergenerational bond. Mending includes two curtain tie-backs and kitchen towels, made by her mother, from worn linen sheet and cotton mattress ticking. Her favourite, the Provencal printed fabric, used to make the tie-backs, is a printed cotton with a single floral pattern – originally imported to France from India in 17th century, hen manufactured in Provence often used in quilted Provencal fabric and traditional costumes. This single floral pattern is also drawn and used in Dupré's Courtepointe en Indienne series Stitch: Linen darning running in the warp threads. Reprise de toile, fil de chaîne. Washi (Japanese paper), Kozo (mulberry); Kitchen towels, linen and cotton mattress ticking; curtain tie-backs, Provencal printed cotton (Buti motif); DMC Mouliné Spécial, stranded cotton embroidery thread; linen thread; dressmaking steel pins, white glass-headed steel pins; dowel pine rod; white metal rings. 0m90 H x 0m92 W x 0m05 D 2m10 H from floor