For five keys

Silk, pins, monofilament thread

For Five Keys comprises three works—The Promise, Abjection, and Violation—constructed from needles, pins, silk thread, and monofilament.

Pins are hammered directly into the wall, ceiling, and floor to trace an outline, placed closely side by side to form a delicate framework. A continuous silk thread is then drawn through these anchor points, as if preparing a loom’s warp. The threads run in parallel—connected yet never touching—so that removing a single pin causes the entire structure to collapse. This physical tension becomes central to the works’ tactility and fragility. Here, stitching operates as a metaphor for repair: an act of assembling fragments into a provisional wholeness while simultaneously concealing evidence of rupture.

Abjection
Part of the For Five Keys installation, Abjection examines conflict and internal struggle through overlapping pattern pieces that alternately converge and separate. Referencing recognizable dressmaking templates, the work invokes the coded language of clothing—how garments reflect and enforce social values, hierarchies, and expectations of the body. In doing so, it interrogates the attitudes and public codes through which identity and belonging are continually shaped.