A Day's Weaving: Mark-Making Workshop

Bà Nhung has been weaving for fifty-five years. Each day adds something small, one pattern, one hour, one mood until years of ordinary labour become inseparable from the life they accompanied. This workshop takes that logic as its starting point.

Participants are invited to make a single mark on a shared piece of undyed cloth: a gesture, a line, a word, a shape using graphite pencils provided in the gallery. No experience is required. Participants will then work in quiet, with space for individual reflection before a short closing conversation.

After the workshop ends, the cloth remains in the gallery, placed beneath the two CRT screens showing the documentary. Visitors who come after the workshop are welcome to add their own mark using pencils left in the space. By the final day of the exhibition, the cloth will carry the accumulated traces of everyone who paused long enough to leave something behind, a material record of the exhibition's audience, growing slowly alongside the works on display. The cloth will return to Vietnam after the exhibition closes.

Image Caption: Undyed cotton cloth to be used for collective graphite mark-making during A Day’s Weaving: Mark-Making Workshop, 2026. Photograph courtesy of Tra My Phan.