Weaving Memory: Luke Fowler’s Recent Works

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7pm for “Weaving Memory,” a screening of four recent films by Luke Fowler, followed by a discussion with the artist.

In his films, Luke Fowler builds portraits from fragments: spaces lived in, voices remembered, music recorded, and the rhythms of work and everyday life. Rather than tracing linear biographies, the artist turns to the atmospheres and residues that creative practices leave behind. The four works in this program, made between 2020 and 2025, each weave memory of rhythms of place and sound—whether in a modernist home designed for textile production, a Paris apartment animated by musique concrète, or the post-industrial streets of San Francisco’s South of Market district.

Films

Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn, On Weaving (2025, 26 minutes)
On Weaving is collaborative film by artists Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn that reflects on the legacy of textile designer Bernat Klein (1922-2014) presenting weaving as both subject and structuring principle. Born in Serbia, Klein emigrated to the UK in the post-war period and based his textile manufacturing business in the Scottish Borders. Developed as part of a residency at Alchemy Film & Arts, the film weaves together two portraits: of the region’s famous textile industry and of High Sunderland, the modernist house that Peter Womersley designed for Klein near Selkirk—a house “stitched” into the Scottish landscape that inspired Klein’s textile designs.

Luke Fowler, N’importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (2023, 9 minutes)
The film N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) in many ways stands in the tradition of Fowler’s impressionist portraits of persons who have made an impact on his personal and artistic life. Quite often, the person being portrayed remains unseen, with Fowler concentrating instead on their voice and traces of their presence in the form of personal ephemera or the atmosphere of their room. Yet, in this new film, the performativity of his subject Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari is self-evident. Composer Brunhild Ferrari, born 1937 in Frankfurt, Germany, moved in 1959 to Paris, where she would meet and marry the composer Luc Ferrari. Brunhild Meyer, who produced a number of works of radio art in the 70’s and 80’s for SWF, slowly began to emerge as a composer in the last decade (adopting her husband’s surname only after his death). Luc Ferrari was a pioneer of musique concrète and a founding member of Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in Paris. Fowler’s film provides peripheral glimpses into their collaborative life and work but resists a traditional biographic narrative.

Luke Fowler, N’importe Quoi (Extérieur – Jour) (2024, 11 minutes)A companion film extending the portrait into the streets of Paris, combining Meyer-Ferrari’s music with field recordings by Éric La Casa.

Luke Fowler, Patrick (2020, 21 minutes)
Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits of individuals through precise compositions of the things they have left behind: recorded images and sounds, papers and notes, artwork, the spaces through which they moved, and the testimonies of friends who remain among the living. Patrick evokes the life of its eponymous music producer [Patrick Cowley], by all these means, taking in the postindustrial charms of San Francisco’s now-gentrified South of Market district, once famous for its dance clubs and leather bars, as if searching for Cowley’s still-lingering energy. –Ed Halter

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Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave (garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.