Stitched Services (2025)
The Stitched Services project addresses the visibility of unpaid care and household work. This is done in the form of, and in dialogue with, textiles that are commonly found in one‘s own four walls. Hand embroidery is used as a medium to archive various household chores, abstracting the objects that are being embroidered, without them becoming impractical.
Through text and brackets printed with a screen print in german asking the question „Wer macht die Hausarbeit?“ (Translation: „Who does the Housework?“), the objects can function as a diary for both an individual and a community. The categories of screen printing actively embrace communal care and several household assemblages, the color of a stitched thread can symbolize actions over days, weeks, or months. Here, textiles are intentionally used as a medium, for they are just as interwoven in our daily lives as unpaid care work itself.
Photo Credits ©Stefan Schönauer