Uncertainty

2021

'Uncertainty', cotton thread and needle on cotton canvas, wooden embroidery hoop, 2021. 21.5 × 20.7 × 1 cm. Neus Torres Tamarit.

The piece reflects on home as a vessel for heritage and lived experience: what is built, inherited and carried within a place, and what comes undone there. Caught between construction and unravelling, and stopped mid-stitch, the work holds that tension still. I embroidered it in 2021, during a period of enforced stillness that gave me space to reflect. Its questions about belonging, inheritance and what a home holds have only deepened in the years since. It's different from the work I've made in recent years, but thematically it belongs to the same ongoing exploration of genetics, evolution, inheritance, mental health, and material research.

Exhibition

Currently exhibited at the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show: 'There Is No Place Like It' curated by Henry Holland, until Saturday 28 November, Monday to Saturday, 11am–5pm, at Dora House, 108 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3RA.