WeMend (2023—)

WeMend, a participatory workshop, was first introduced in 2023 at Womanifesto: Flowing Connections exhibition at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre. The exhibition offered a social workshop space inviting individuals and community groups to join in the ongoing activity to sew/embroider/patch/upcycle off-cut pieces of fabrics gathered locally.  Since spread in various locations – Thailand, India, Sharjah, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, UK, USA, UAE and Pakistan –  bringing together the unique cultural imprint of each location and accentuating interrelationship between people. Engaging in this meditative hands-on activity with sewing at its core is to nurture linkages with each other and in turn with all that surrounds us. In our fragmented times, WeMend explores the possibilities of convergence, offering time and space to slow down – to commune, converse, and connect - individually and collectively contemplate on both material and non-materials matters in our lives. The patched cloth from all locations are merged into one continuous piece and installed as a shelter-like structure at exhibitions where visitors are invited to continue attaching patches and make the fabric grow.