“Reconstructing Memory: Embroidering the Family Archive”
Laboratory
🪡 We invite you to the author’s laboratory “Reconstructing Memory: Embroidering the Family Archive”. It will be led by Marina Sazonenko — artist, researcher and creator of the exhibition “Entertaining Sericulture”, currently on show at the Silk Factory Museum and Laboratory; educator; graduate of the HSE Graduate School of Art and Design.
It is a chance to take a fresh look at your family history through creativity and textiles.
A family photo archive is not only a unique way to document the lives of our ancestors; it also lets us discover unobvious personal connections and hidden details, immerse ourselves in family history and find the origins of our own identity.
Textiles and embroidery help us focus on personal memories and have a therapeutic effect. In a creative atmosphere, we will recall family stories, look through photo albums and try to create our own personal “photo archive” through embroidery — paying tribute to “forgotten ancestors” and realising our place in the history of our family and lineage.
No special embroidery skills are needed: it is enough to be able to thread a needle, stretch fabric on a hoop and make a few simple stitches. The laboratory is designed for participants aged 12+ and is a wonderful occasion to spend time with the whole family, remember the stories of your loved ones and preserve them in an unusual textile form.
Please bring photographs from your family archive or scanned copies — they will become the basis of your future work.
It is a chance to take a fresh look at your family history through creativity and textiles.
A family photo archive is not only a unique way to document the lives of our ancestors; it also lets us discover unobvious personal connections and hidden details, immerse ourselves in family history and find the origins of our own identity.
Textiles and embroidery help us focus on personal memories and have a therapeutic effect. In a creative atmosphere, we will recall family stories, look through photo albums and try to create our own personal “photo archive” through embroidery — paying tribute to “forgotten ancestors” and realising our place in the history of our family and lineage.
No special embroidery skills are needed: it is enough to be able to thread a needle, stretch fabric on a hoop and make a few simple stitches. The laboratory is designed for participants aged 12+ and is a wonderful occasion to spend time with the whole family, remember the stories of your loved ones and preserve them in an unusual textile form.
Please bring photographs from your family archive or scanned copies — they will become the basis of your future work.
