https://jesszamoraturner.com jesszamoraturner.com Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:37:09 +0000 https://jesszamoraturner.com en https://jesszamoraturner.com/Landing-Page Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:04:17 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Landing-Page &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c9d1d5d16d473bab5bd6c042d45e655c427f5e2612588193db4de7b410400f1/IMG_0670.jpg" data-mid="207999436" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c9d1d5d16d473bab5bd6c042d45e655c427f5e2612588193db4de7b410400f1/IMG_0670.jpg" /> https://jesszamoraturner.com/Three-Sisters Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:37:09 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Three-Sisters Three Sisters, 2024 <img width="1920" height="2560" width_o="1920" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e05c77f3334e4ec576efda9b7cc8577fef2d77a378d322a2e9167ec04d81e3d6/Volution_SZ_07-1920x2560.jpg" data-mid="217972856" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e05c77f3334e4ec576efda9b7cc8577fef2d77a378d322a2e9167ec04d81e3d6/Volution_SZ_07-1920x2560.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2667" width_o="2000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/448d275de2d1b21491529374338fcf8ffbeda7fb74ea4dbf9997cc0077f84d9d/Volution_SZ_4-2000x2667.jpg" data-mid="217973916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/448d275de2d1b21491529374338fcf8ffbeda7fb74ea4dbf9997cc0077f84d9d/Volution_SZ_4-2000x2667.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="2559" width_o="1920" height_o="2559" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b6ce2730ae9f9a6b9eec6c63c435e44e39d44111923fa204c96b88e7f06ca6f/Volution_SZ_08-1920x2559.jpg" data-mid="217972857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b6ce2730ae9f9a6b9eec6c63c435e44e39d44111923fa204c96b88e7f06ca6f/Volution_SZ_08-1920x2559.jpg" /> Three Sisters is a hand-quilted textile sculpture containing heirloom seeds of corn, beans, and squash, plants traditionally grown together across the so-called Americas through a companion planting method known as the Three Sisters. Seeds from Jess’s own garden and ongoing agricultural apprenticeship are embedded within the seams of a delicate antique blouse, patchworked with used domestic fabrics. The work acknowledges the survival practices of displaced people who carried seeds to new lands, transporting with them sustenance, story, and continuity. By returning corn to its companion crops, Three Sisters offers a quiet interruption to the isolating and fractured logic of industrial agriculture and monoculturing, restoring maize—however minutely—to a relational, living context. 172 cm x 147 cm. Naturally dyed used domestic textiles and clothing, sheep’s wool, cotton thread, corn, bean and squash seeds.&nbsp;Presented as part of “Volution” at Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin&nbsp; Curated by Shahin Zarinbal and Sinaida Michalskaja Images by Eric Tschernow Press&nbsp; Mousse Magazine “Volution” at Shahin Zirinbal, Berlin https://jesszamoraturner.com/Postomia Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:12:58 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Postomia Postomia, 2023 <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a730979441ebd9df3ab7d9850941305aa840724048bd5f428e0836dff7ce7fe0/_GNG1687.jpeg" data-mid="202142056" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a730979441ebd9df3ab7d9850941305aa840724048bd5f428e0836dff7ce7fe0/_GNG1687.jpeg" /> Postomia, 2023, is a large textile hanging made in collaboration with the Postomia River in northwest Poland. Used bed sheets were submerged in the riverbed, absorbing sediment, agricultural runoff, sewage, and other regional flows. The resulting stains and markings reveal both the river’s organic life and its entanglement with ecological degradation. Hand-stitched into a single surface, these elements form a patchworked record of place, an imprint of the river’s shifting states and toxicities. 290cm x 260cm. Reclaimed cotton and linen bedding and tablecloths soaked for months in the Postomia river, Western Poland. Handsewn with cotton thread.&nbsp; Hotel Warszawa Art Fair with Galerie Molitor September 8-10, 2023 Photographs by Katarzyna Legendź https://jesszamoraturner.com/Pisagua-Blanket Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:56:02 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Pisagua-Blanket Pisagua Blanket, 2023 <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c78d1122d9adc35f83f9c3e6e5851d3d8a01e1fd830c44d2bfa694519080159/LuB5jsBf.jpg" data-mid="170948711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c78d1122d9adc35f83f9c3e6e5851d3d8a01e1fd830c44d2bfa694519080159/LuB5jsBf.jpg" /><img width="7338" height="4892" width_o="7338" height_o="4892" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5618ac7b7d9041325841896065463e417c56864166337c25f576457f4dc4cc9/hyvf1eEw.jpg" data-mid="170948714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5618ac7b7d9041325841896065463e417c56864166337c25f576457f4dc4cc9/hyvf1eEw.jpg" /><img width="8736" height="11648" width_o="8736" height_o="11648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a28cb207d9463d042d0171b439f049cc8ffeff4306f9696db81590eb4f4953d5/u5KTkWLI.jpg" data-mid="170948717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a28cb207d9463d042d0171b439f049cc8ffeff4306f9696db81590eb4f4953d5/u5KTkWLI.jpg" /> Working with untreated wool and stitching together scraps of second-hand fabric, Zamora-Turner melds metaphorical and tactile registers with her patchwork quilt. Making this blanket is a mode of piecing together her own personal and cultural histories, connecting the generations of British wool and cotton mill workers on her mother’s side with her Chilean roots on her father’s side, invoking the tradition of Arpilleras–bright, burlap textiles that depicted the brutal oppression of Pinochet’s military regime in a form of collective resistance disguised as folk embroidery. Zamora-Turner’s works with quilting is a mode of acknowledging and continuing the rich history of Andean textile traditions. The quilt is something of an offering to her father, dyed in varying shades of pink with madder root in allusion to the infamous pink walls of the Pisagua concentration camp in northern Chile, where he was detained as a prisoner during the dictatorship. The peachy tones also evoke the hues of Chile’s desert landscape, the color of the artist’s own skin, a feminine hue for this practice of quilting long relegated as women’s work. Zamora-Turner works through these many layers of inheritance, as she pieces together cuts of table linen, clothing and bedding that she sources from recycling centers in Poland. Repurposing these discarded textiles, she regenerates what had been deemed waste, nodding also to a connection between Poland and Chile’s Atacama desert as two of the world’s largest receivers of fast fashion leftovers and textile waste. Photographs by Marjorie Brunet PlazaBojące Wszystkich Krajów Łączmy Się - Galerie Molitor, March 2023Wojciech Kosma, Mania Łukaszewska, Jess Zamora- Turner, The BWKŁS Choir PressEwa Majewska for Blok Magazine "An Archive of the Weak? The Afraid of All Lands Unite" Full press release here https://jesszamoraturner.com/Sun-Blanket Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:57:25 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Sun-Blanket Sun Blanket, 2022 <img width="4311" height="3888" width_o="4311" height_o="3888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00b40f39bd2554392fa3af616a4955418731655fa34f731c04b83910e229aa87/P1000167.JPG" data-mid="170948747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00b40f39bd2554392fa3af616a4955418731655fa34f731c04b83910e229aa87/P1000167.JPG" /> <img width="2898" height="1576" width_o="2898" height_o="1576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c8eb92425a500add7ac37105d086996e6fdaadad2b28b02cf63b89b3ffdcf83/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-19.16.51.png" data-mid="170948749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c8eb92425a500add7ac37105d086996e6fdaadad2b28b02cf63b89b3ffdcf83/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-19.16.51.png" /> “Zaplatanie naszych słonecznych splotów razem to szczyt moich marzeń” (Braiding our solar plexus together is the pinnacle of my dreams) was a secular folk-rave ritual and public performance. Centered around the metaphor of braiding, it invited participants to reimagine forms of meaningful and intimate co-presence with both the human and more-than-human world. Over twenty dancers, joined by live musicians, created a continuous, hypnotic piece that drew from contemporary dance vocabularies, traditional Eastern European folk songs and dances, as well as the collective energy of communal ceremonies and outdoor pandemic gatherings. The performance unfolded around a large-scale textile sculpture produced especially for the occasion and took place at Rixdorfer Höhe, a postwar rubble hill in Hasenheide Park, Berlin, on 16.10.2022. Reclaimed cotton &amp; linen naturally dyed with tansy.&nbsp; Hand sewn sunflower seeds with words by Wojciech Kosma. Braided gold cord fringe with dried marigolds, cherry leaves and yarrow flowers. Still from live public performance by film maker Ewelina Węgiel, Choreography by Monika Błaszczak, Lyrics and music by Wojciech Kosma. Full video link and credits here. https://jesszamoraturner.com/Bio Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:23:27 +0000 jesszamoraturner.com https://jesszamoraturner.com/Bio &nbsp; <img width="3086" height="3858" width_o="3086" height_o="3858" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb4d7fc8de016bcfffd95ac781fdd1e1eb49dcae330e1a63b97ad4b2ca52fe63/Jess_06_BW.jpg" data-mid="168627866" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb4d7fc8de016bcfffd95ac781fdd1e1eb49dcae330e1a63b97ad4b2ca52fe63/Jess_06_BW.jpg" />Photo by Octavia Bürgel, 2023 Jess Zamora-Turner is a British-Chilean visual artist and grower based in Berlin. Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities. Jess frequently collaborates with poets, musicians, cooks, dancers, performers, and filmmakers to activate her works in collective rituals and events. Her practice expands on the tradition of Andean abstraction and experimental dyeing with plants that are foraged or specially grown. Jess is currently in her sixth year seasonally tending a garden on the Polish-German border, where she grows a diverse selection of heirloom plants as well as stewarding and saving at risk seed varieties. Jess has exhibited at Shahin Zarinbal and Galerie Molitor in Berlin and at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in Warsaw, Poland. Her collaboration with musicians and dancers, a public performance Zaplatanie was staged in Hasenheide Park in Berlin in 2022. She often leads workshops or communal events, such as herbal smudging workshops at Floating University in Berlin or Public Works Group in London. contact: jessica.zamoraturner@gmail.com