WOOLNERABLE
2025
Mixed media: unprocessed sheep wool, burlap, reclaimed fabric, found objects, salvaged wood
Photos by Lelle Fotografie
This body of work investigates the expressive potential of unprocessed sheep wool — both material and metaphor. It unfolds as a tactile dialogue with the category of absence and the ontology of grief.
Although the pieces recall the sequential logic of the Via Crucis, the reference is non-religious. I use its structure —a path composed of stations— as a framework to depict the psychological stages of grief. Each work functions as a point of tension, weight, rupture or transition. In this context, wool, burlap, reclaimed fabric, found objects and salvaged wood operate as archetypal carriers of burden, fragility and endurance. The result is a material mapping of grief: not a theological narrative, but a constellation of emotional thresholds shaped through matter.
While the series was not conceived as site-specific, the background space didn’t remain neutral. It held the works, answered them back, and aligned its own elemental qualities with their material presence.
What emerged was a brief reciprocity: the works grounding the space, the space amplifying the works, until boundaries dissolved and the environment became part of the piece rather than its backdrop — not objects documented, but entities revealed.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
— James Joyce
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII (verso)— In-situ (Context View)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Context View)
Woollage I — In-situ (Full View)
Falling again, Woollage VII — In-situ (Close-Up)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Context View)
Falling again, Woollage VII — In-situ (Context View)
Falling again, Woollage VII (left) & Woollage I (right) — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Ash, Woollage XIV — In-situ (Detail)
Falling again, Woollage VII — In-situ (Detail)
Woollage I — In-situ (Context View)
Falling again, Woollage VII — In-situ (Full View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII — In-situ (Close-up)
Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Pax Exanimis, Woollage XIII — In-situ (Context View)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Full View)
Falling, Woollage III — In-situ (Context View)
Ash, Woollage XIV — In-situ (Full View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII (verso) & Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Pax Exanimis, Woollage XIII — In-situ (Context View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII — In-situ (Full View)
Pax Exanimis, Woollage XIII — In-situ (Full View)
Woollage II — In-situ (Detail)
Pax Exanimis, Woollage XIII — In-situ (Detail)
Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV (verso) — In-situ (Context View)
Falling, Woollage III — In-situ (Full View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII — In-situ (Context View)
Porous Existance, Woollage VI — In-situ (Full View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII / Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Woollage I — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Woollage I / Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII / Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Falling, Woollage III — In-situ (Context View)
From left to right: Woollage I / Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII / Descent, Woollage VIII — Installation View (Photographic Setting)
Ash, Woollage XIV — In-situ (Full View)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Detail)
Falling again, Woollage VII — In-situ (Close-Up)
Ash, Woollage XIV — In-situ (Detail)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII (verso)— In-situ (Close-Up))
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Detail)
Ash, Woollage XIV — In-situ (Close-Up)
Woollage I — In-situ (Context View)
Pendiente de un hilo, Woollage IV — In-situ (Close-Up)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII (verso)— In-situ (Full View)
Lema Sabachthani, Woollage XII — In-situ (Close-Up)