May 13, Cinéma du Musée; June 12–14, Goethe-Institut Montréal — Work in Progress
An architectural space where small hands, with inexhaustible creativity, make, unmake, and remake — play as their own organic form of care.
Little Hands, Big Mess is a miniature of Ungnyeo’s Cave: Body That Hums (2017, ongoing), rooted in the Korean myth of Ungnyeo, the bear-woman whose cave is womb, land, and body at once — an ancient, creative space where children enter to play, make, and transform. Built from paper, textile, cleaned recycled clothing, drawing and safe stationery, and snacks, Little Hands, Big Mess carries this lineage forward at a small, intimate scale, with a limitation of plastic and artificial materials: structures rise, collapse, and rise again, each iteration its own small act of care.
Materials: Paper, textile, cleaned recycled clothing, drawing supplies, safe stationery, snacks
Collaborators: Sarah-Maude Lemieux (filmmaker), Jacques Desbiens (hologram artist)
Slow Forms 