Sascha Pohle - Passage

Amsterdam, 4x 100 % wool / Anseong , 3x. 50 % wool, 50% acrylic / Seoul, 5 x 50 % wool, 50% acrylic / Seoul 1x 100 % cotton / Berlin, 1 x 60 % acryl, 40 % cotton / Berlin, 1x 60 % wool, 35 % viscose, 4 % polyester, 1% silver / Berlin, 1x 100 % cotton / Brindisi, 1x 58% cotton, 25% linen, 17% wool / Dresden 1 x 70 % cotton, 20 % linen, 10 % wool / Dresden 1x 52 % cotton, 41% wool, 7 % linen / Düsseldorf , 3x 100 % acrylic / 1x Frankfurt, 50 % acrylic, 28 % cotton, 2 % linen, 10 % nylon, 5 % polyester, 5 % rayon / 1x Frankfurt, 24 % acrylic, 1 % alpaca, 25 % nylon, 40 % polyester, 10 % wool / 1x Frankfurt, 27 % acrylic, 7 % cotton, 3 % linen, 35% nylon, 16 % polyester, 12 % rayon / Hong Kong 4x 60% acrylic, 28 % nylon, 8 % wool, 4 % mohair / Macao 2 x 50 % polyester, 50 % 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

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