“Something happens to us, reaches us from underneath, from below, arriving at what we call the underside of art — that is, something happens to the support of the work, to its substance, to its subjectile.”

(Jacques Derrida)

The carpet is a rhizome — without centre or structure, an in-between space that becomes polarised and activated through an action that promotes transformation. This action projects the space outward, creating a dynamic relationship between connections and reconnections. From the intertwining of threads comes a web; from forms, images; from colours, intentions; from weaves, knots. The carpet marks out a space — both inside and outside itself — where everything is woven without the pressure of becoming a product.

These performative conversations each offer a contribution to the understanding of artistic practices — their interstices, their undersides — and also to a closer relationship between the lived reality of artists’ work and the wider artistic community. 

To pull the carpet from under the artist is to uncover their questions and searches, the dreams and realities that live and unfold in the accumulation of their research.