Amsterdam, 4 x, 100 % wool
Anseong , 3 x. 50 % wool / 50% acrylic
Seoul, 5 x, 50 % wool / 50% acrylic
Seoul 1x 100 % cotton
Berlin, 1 x, 60 % acryl / 40 % cotton
Berlin, 1 x, 60 % wool / 35 % viscose / 4 % polyester /1% silver
Berlin, 1 x, 100 % cotton
Brindisi, 1 x, 58% cotton / 25% linen /17% wool
Dresden 1, 70 % cotton, 20 % linen, 10 % wool
Dresden 2, 52 % cotton, 41% wool, 7 % linen
Düsseldorf , 3 x , 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 4 x 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 an ongoing work that consists of various machine knitted fabrics transferred from digital photographs, snapshots made with a mobile phone camera, of urban asphalt from various cities where I do or have lived and worked. In Passage solid terrain, the hard and damaged public ground becomes converted into intimate soft structures. In an exhibition, the knits are repetitively folded and carefully arranged on tables, racks or pedestals. In the form of a tangible ‘walk’, the knits are presented by one or more performing ‚flaneur’ unfolding endless arrays of combinations, overlaps, colors, shapes and patterns. The only information the audience receives is the name of the city and the percentage of used fibrers. Passage is a fluid index - and a versatile object that oscillates between cloth for fashion, archival document, or folding map. Drifting is practiced as a visual and haptic exercise of groundlessness and belonging - a kind of micro-perspective on artist’s life in 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
Workplace Sequence, 2022, Seoul (with Juergen Staack, Tim Löhde, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec)
Drifts Festival, Passage performed in collaboration with Enna Bae, Windmill, Seoul, 2022
WALK!, exhibition view, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2022
video: Flo Maak
photos: Jakob Otter
Passage, Grzegorzki Shows, Berlin, 2019
Foldings
photos by: Roman März,Flo Maak, Sascha Pohle
Friendly Patterns, in collaboration with Flo Maak, Space One, Seoul, 2016
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