PIECE /WORK

Centering process and collaborative sense-making, PIECE/WORK was a durational performance installation by queer, cross-disciplinary artists Katherine Ferrier and Meg Wolfe, presented as part of the exhibition Can’t Take My Eyes Off You at SPEEDWELL Contemporary gallery in Portland, Maine from September 7-9, 2022. It was developed during a 4-day residency at The Cannery in Penobscot, ME.

Two figures alternate between sorting a giant pile of fabric scraps, stitching at two sewing machines, moving in the space, and attaching sewn pieces to the wall. The work unfolds over three days, building both a physical patchwork that grows in size, and a shared movement language that grows in complexity and nuance. Viewers are invited into an intimate witnessing as the space is transformed, seam by seam, gesture by gesture.