Vincent Ward  +  

Loom traces the invisible threads that bind one life to another - the quiet weave of memory, longing, and inheritance. In Loom, the act of weaving becomes a metaphor for intimacy and distance, for the fragile filaments that tie us to the past.

The video works explore the feminine source of these subliminal threads - woven through generations of birthing, and connecting people through time. Loom returns to the earliest gesture of belonging: the stitching together of what might otherwise fall apart.

Ward’s exploration of the feminine, and of the space between disconnection and connectedness, is rooted in childhood memory. The neat, patched threads sewn by his refugee mother were both an act of care and a link to the country she left behind. Burnished in these threads lies an unspoken understanding of the forces at play when we yearn for closeness.

How gestures of care become structures of memory - and considers the thread as archive: a mutable line through which memory, identity, and displacement are continuously rewritten.

Loom unfolds as both a series of images and an immersive video environment.

Loom - Print

The print installation comprises between ten and thirty inter related works, marking a new phase in the ongoing re-examination of the Loom project. None have been exhibited before.

Loom — Immersive Video Installation

Available to view upon curator request. Designed as a modular, site-specific system adaptable to various spatial contexts — from corridors and labyrinths to large-scale spatial environments — ranging from single-screen display to 30-channel synchronised video installation.