Luna Faye Naumer Mateos
Spain, 1996
dormitorio.hotglue.me
Thesis: Undoing the warp, girls hold hands
Patching stories, narratives and homes.
Luna (they/she), dresses a home through quilting and patchwork; folding their own protective space into family in the context of queer and trans experience. For over a year they have been working on creating different elements that would make their house feel like their own space. They wove an apron, silk covers to upholster chairs and now, for this project, made four quilts. These works are deeply connected to the home, they tell a story, they belong to the space, therefore they built a furniture to bring the quilts to the exhibition –eight stools that become a shelf– so I am not bringing only the quilts but also the space that holds them.
These quilts set the ground on which the collective work entre•dones stands in the graduation space, a collective of women and femmes that met during the past months. I aimed, through the practice of patchwork, to gather and listen to each other and create and share knowledge. From and for women and femmes. This is presented in a table as an archive, but also as a performance where each of the participants decides to share a piece of knowledge in relation to the conversations we had during the meetings. The title entre·dones comes from the words in Catalan for ‘between women’, which resembles the word quilts (edredones) in Spanish.
‘We are storing our crafts, stories and knowledge, mouth to ear, needle to fabric.’