Wire Fences

Arter İstanbul
June 2023

Organised in the context of Eva Koťátková’s solo exhibition I Sometimes Imagine I’m A Fish with Legs and the cages the artist often employs in her works, this workshop invites participants to extend the ‘restricted’ spaces we allot to the monsters that we imprison and suppress within ourselves. As part of the workshop, participants uses copper wire and knitting yarn in order to make their own creations, all the while partaking in a conversation around concepts such as flexibility, permeability and impermanence. The workshop concludes with a ‘liberating’ meditation to render possible the escape of the proverbial monsters from their cages.