Spin Club Tapestry

• Photographer
  Astrid Reischwitz
• Photo Date
  2018-2022

Spin Club Tapestry is an exploration of cultural and personal memory, inspired by the tradition of Spin Clubs in Northern Germany. By following the stitches of original fabric from my village, I follow a path through the lives of my ancestors, their layout of a perfect pattern and the mistakes they made. I connect the present and the past by re-imagining pieces of the embroidery. The patterns I have stitched myself into the paper represent fractions of memory. Sometimes I leave the stitching incomplete for others to envision their own path.

Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her current work incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany. Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Newport Art Museum, and Griffin Museum of Photography. Her first monograph Spin Club Stories was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.