Nefaria
2007, 12 pillowcases stitched with embroidery thread, dimensions variable.

For Subversion and the Domestic [Roosevelt] posted 12 pillowcases from America – each beautifully hand-crafted with simple embroidery stitching – outlining in colored threads objects and signs that he saw around the estate when he visited Aideen Barry – the House for Sale sign; a child’s scooter; a wall; a tree; a cloud with sun. Each element drawn with a double-row of stitching onto cream pillowcases presents a simple isolated scene, rendering the vernacular with a mundane pop art detachment. They are as if of disconnected floating elements in dreams that return to us the peculiar elements of valid or meaningless psychological phenomenon… its presentation in the spare bedroom creates a Zen-like atmosphere… evoked within the uncanny and unreachable zones of daydreams and sleep or the spaces before death.                

– Cliodhna Shaffrey, in House Projects, artworks, documents, analysis.

House Projects