Lifeline
Date:
2007 - 2008
Ref:
0240
Matériaux:
Cotton toile, wadding, eyelets, various clips, stencil
Dimensions:
Various dimensions
Catalogued:
Lifeline, ed. University of the Arts London, 2024 - ISBN 978-1-906908-87-4
Exhibition history:
2024 Refugee Week 2024, V&A, London, UK
Courtesy:
Lucy + Jorge Orta
The collection of ‘Lifeline’ objects – meta-symbols – are crafted in soft calico; a fabric traditionally used to make toiles, or prototype garments. In this sense, ‘Lifeline’ are unfinished, open-ended prompts to enable discussion and conversations, offering new avenues of thought.
View the workshop with refugees and aslym seekers here. View the activation at the Victoria and Albert Museum here