Patchwork is a site-specific ephemeral set up by Atelier YokYok, curated by Line Up City Artwork for the occasion «Aux bords des paysages», organized by the municipalities of Grand Pic Saint Loup in Hérault, between June and October 2025.
In continuity with their work on thread and coloration, YokYok explores the transformation of reclaimed garment materials. Right here, the worn “bleu de travail” — or surplus and end-of-stock items — evokes a craft-based and, above all, industrial exercise that resonates with the working-class historical past of the jap Paris suburbs, the place YokYok relies. PatchWork unfolds throughout the big wall within the sq. between the church and the fort. The set up showcases reclaimed workwear.
This fragmented aggregation of a particular material reimagines a fictional collective bodily tied to the world of labor, united by type and monochrome. The set up attire the façade like a dressing up, a tapestry, a curtain. Gentle and aware of the wind, it evokes surroundings as a lot as clothes and plumage. Like a dangling drape or tapestry, the piece interacts with its setting. Suspended like a festive banner, it attracts on the visible language of medieval celebrations—with their flags, materials, and vivid colours.
By way of a slight detachment and an nearly unintentional tilt, the piece reveals its delicacy and fragility, contrasting with the imposing energy of the positioning. It performs with the connection between structure, materials, and temporality. Patchwork juxtaposes a up to date, versatile materials—tied to industrial instances and labor— with a preserved medieval and Romanesque heritage website, dominated by stone.
Utilizing reclaimed material—generally worn, or from surplus and end-of-stock—the work speaks of a up to date period that’s each vibrant and overproductive. It resonates with a mineral and inert cultural legacy that after embodied collective effort and craftsmanship, now expressed by way of centuries-old constructions.
YokYok attracts inspiration from textile artwork, the apply of patchwork, and fiber artwork to create textures and generate surfaces utilizing easy, low-tech strategies. Their sources of inspiration vary from fashionable and Bauhaus artists like Annie Albers to extra modern figures corresponding to Magdalena Abakanowicz or Olga de Amaral, in addition to extra spatial works like these of Ernesto Neto or Chiharu Shiota. YokYok is as all for supplies as within the energy of coloration to interact in a dialogue with the areas of their in situ installations.
Erected like a display screen, the set up turns into a backdrop for self-staging in entrance of abstraction. Its curved type envelops guests, enhancing the immersive expertise. The lean breaks the flatness of the airplane, and gravity offers quantity to the floor. The material items area out, casting shadows and creating movement.
Supply: Inside Zine
