Too bad nobody's taken the time to make sense and if there is someone there impossible to find. Each stitch becomes a unit of time, small in itself but expanding as part of a whole under the artist’s hand.I hear your frustration and this klub 17 is a total mess… And the forums and instructions are just the worst source of information gathering in the world… It's all over the place and there's tons. Stitches also represent the element of time and touch built into each piece, through the careful process of hand stitching. These are gendered techniques, reflecting the artist’s longstanding interest in feminist discourse – thread as a feminine material. Stitch and piercing are both an alternative form of drawing and a way to consider the limits of surface. In some images the surface of the photograph is stitched into, in others the skin is enhanced or interrupted by, for example, pressure or tape, before the picture is taken. Photographs are cropped and enlarged to emphasise abstraction, geometry and texture, while maintaining the close, at times intimate, relationship to the body, with its marks and scars. Across single images and series, photographs of her body, simple objects, stitches and text are combined to produce shapes and forms that are ambiguous and often absurd. Klein’s recent work explores the body as a location and skin as a surface that conceals and reveals. Her practice also considers the possibilities and limits of language, what can be spoken and what must be shown. She combines materials and processes to create new textures and associations. Klein works with a range of materials and techniques including photography, stitch, painting and sculpture, to explore the ways in which surfaces and objects become repositories for experience and memory. Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK with shows at Saatchi Gallery, Crypt Gallery, Tate Modern and Harrow Arts Centre. She works with a range of media including photography, assemblage and stitch. Her practice centres on themes of time and memory, location and surface, and the encounter between the artist and the viewer at the shifting skin of the artwork. She gained her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Jenny Klein is an artist and writer living and working between London and Southern Italy.
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