Why Katerina Jebb Wanted to Showcase a Strange Embroidery in the V&A

Why Katerina Jebb Wanted to Showcase a Strange Embroidery in the V&A
A new work by artist Katerina Jebb magnifies a 19th-century embroidery sampler from the museum's archive, which tells the harrowing story of its creator Elizabeth Parker – here, Jebb tells Claire Marie Healy about her attraction to "charged" objects
May 06, 2021
Lead ImageUntitled by Katerina Jebb, London and Paris, 2020. © Katerina Jebb© Victoria and Albert Museum
What is imparted to an object when it is scanned, and what is imparted to an object when it is scanned by the artist
Katerina Jebb? There’s the imprint of labour, certainly – the British-born artist’s technique of flat-scanning artefacts piece-by-piece, before seamlessly reassembling them into a collaged whole, takes many long hours and several days per project. There’s a new clarity: something ordinary and familiar is rendered in high-definition, acutely detailed to such an extreme that it takes a few seconds to correctly name it. And, there’s a revelation of it’s hidden mystery. Jebb – who contributed to the most recent issue of AnOther Magazine – is an analyst bearing witness to the “thing-ness” of things, by which I mean the energy deposited into objects by those who originally made them, those who held them, and, as the artist’s body of work attests to, the audience who look at them in the form of large-scale photo-collages.

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