How to care?
Do you care?
Graduation project Master Fine Art HKU
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The installation consists of a series of aprons collaboratively crafted by Parel and individuals representing her care-relations, including her mother, partner, colleague, best friend, boss and teacher. Through shared activities such as cooking, eating and apron-making, Parel and her care-relations delved into topics of care needs. The aprons serve as visual reminders of conversations surrounding care.
To nurture these relationships, Parel initiated a correspondence wherein she shares reflections on their encounters through letters and invites responses. Through this exchange, she cultivates shared understandings of the encounters.
Parel’s installation offers insight into creative processes that serve as moments of communal engagement, time spent together, and relationship-building. This project is characterized by its open-ended nature, going beyond pressure of time limits and instead fostering ongoing relations in their process.
Together with my dad, we built the clothing hangers for each apron, functioning as the framework of the care conversations.
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Care labels were sewn on the aprons and given
to visitors as a start for their care conversations.
How to care? Do you care? was on show at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in the graduation show (Dis)comfort narratives: Moving with the feeling
and was shown at Casco Art Institute: Working for the commons as part of the show Hidden Arts: What do we make when no one sees us.
Visitors were invited to look into the aprons and read the letters.