Sascha Pohle - Passage

Amsterdam, 100 % wool

Anseong, 50 % wool / 50% acrylic

Berlin, 60 % acryl / 40 % cotton

Berlin, 60 % wool / 35 % viscose / 4 % polyester /1% silver

Berlin, 100 % cotton

Brindisi, 58% cotton / 25% linen /17% wool

Dresden, 70 % cotton, 20 % linen, 10 % wool

Dresden, 52 % cotton, 41% wool, 7 % linen

Düsseldorf, 100 % acrylic

Frankfurt, 50 % acrylic, 28 % cotton, 2 % linen, 10 % nylon, 5 % polyester, 5 % rayon

Frankfurt, 24 % acrylic, 1 % alpaca, 25 % nylon, 40 % polyester, 10 % wool

Frankfurt, 27 % acrylic, 7 % cotton, 3 % linen, 35% nylon, 16 % polyester, 12 % rayon

Hong Kong, 60% acrylic, 28 % nylon, 8 % wool, 4 % mohair

Hong Kong, 60% acrylic, 28 % nylon, 8 % wool, 4 % mohai

Macao, 50 % polyester, 50 % cotton

Seoul, 50 % wool / 50% acrylic

Seoul, 100 % cotton

Shenzhen, 57 % acrylic, 33 % cotton, 10 % nylon

Studio No 1, 62 % cotton, 8 % mohair, 10 % viscose, 20 % wool

Studio No 2, 100 % acrylic

Passage is a steadily growing collection of machine-knitted fabrics transferred from digital photographs—snapshots made with a mobile phone camera—of urban asphalt from cities where I have lived and worked. In Passage, solid public terrain and damaged public ground convert into intimate private soft structures that play between macro cityscapes and micro textures, repetitively folded and carefully arranged on tables, racks, or floor for exhibition. They manifest as a tangible "walk," presented by one or more performing flâneurs who unfold endless arrays of combinations, overlaps, colors, shapes, and patterns, with audiences receiving only the city name and fiber percentages.

Passage functions as a fluid index and versatile object that oscillates between fashion cloth, archival document, folding map, public ground and private memory. Drifting becomes a visual and haptic exercise in groundlessness and belonging—a micro-perspective on the artist's life across contemporary realities and territories.

The knits were produced at various knitting factories and in collaboration with the TextielLab in the Textielmuseum Tilburg, Upnoon Knit Lab, Seoul, Sabrina Weigt, Berlin

For further readings Sascha Pohle Passage (Berlin) by Susanne Prinz

Fluid Ground, Installation view, Alternative Art Space LOOP, Seoul, 2023