"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"
Walter Benjamin
A knitting journey. A pilgrimage without a god. A demonstration without a sign or a recipient.
About a year ago, inspired by my late mother’s crochet work, and driven by the Russian war on Ukraine, I created a work for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, named 'Preventive Knitting'.
This work, my encounter with people around it, and the horrific war taking place now in Gaza and Israel, push me to re-create the project in the streets outside of any artistic establishment, context or boundaries. This time I plan to travel between countries, knitting crochet style on barbed wire with white thread. Just sitting, knitting and meeting.
This action is about definitions, borders and fences and about the need to melt and confuse them again and again so we can become humans.
I decided to start the knitting journey in Spain at the city of Portbou, where Walter Benjamin committed suicide.