you’d be home by now
Patchwork quilt faces are stitched together from small pieces. With odd scraps, one can piece together something big enough to be wrapped in, something that feels like love, or a home. This exhibition is a patchwork of patchworks (of patchworks) that Carsel has gathered together in order to rethink the trope of the “Wandering Jew,” and therein the inherited sense of displacement, survival, and homesickness that permeates their personal and cultural paradigms.
Exhibition view: you’d be home by now, Wormhole, Edgecumbe (2022).
Eight Hands Round (2022) (detail). Chalk and watercolour pencil. 1500mm x 1500mm. Exhibition view: you’d be home by now, Wormhole, Edgecumbe (2022).
Exhibition view: you’d be home by now, Wormhole, Edgecumbe (2022).
Wandering Jew (2022). Chalk and watercolour pencil. 1500mm x 1500mm. Exhibition view: you’d be home by now, Wormhole, Edgecumbe (2022).
knobl—soup! (2020–2021) (detail). Onionskin-, avocado-, and garlic-dyed cotton fabric, cotton thread, 3150mm x 5280mm. Originally commissioned by Aotearoa Art Fair for Projects 2021. Exhibition view: you’d be home by now, Wormhole, Edgecumbe (2022).
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