Ruth Jeyaveeran

Soft Remains

Curated by Jacob Rhodes

Artist Reception: Mar 2, 6-8pm

Dates: Mar 2 - April 8, 2023

Field Projects is pleased to present Ruth Jeyaveeran’s solo exhibition SOFT REMAINS. 

Jeyaveeran’s felt offerings reach back to our common ancient history. Familiar shapes stoke our collective memory of early vessels, tools and bones. Objects once abandoned by the communal fire after a night hunt, now found once more through the traditional material practice of felting.  

Drawing from her experience as part of the South Asian diaspora, Jeyaveeran entangles the social and material in these fiber artifacts. Relations between human, animal and fauna collapse to tell a story of migration, alienation, disbursement, dissociation, evolution and otherness. The act of sewing, tying, and tangling fibers together is Jeyaveeran’s attempt to remake and repair connections with body, environment and community. Wool is primal, spiritual and bound to nature. Textiles, a source of warmth and protection, offer a tactile antidote to our disenchantment with the modern world.

We invite you to wander the installation of SOFT REMAINS and use these objects, vessels, tools and bones as talismans - guides and markers for your own journey between words and worlds.

all inquiries: jacob@fieldprojectsgallery.com