Feme Sole by Jessie Fraser

October 8 - November 30

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Jessie Fraser, "Feme Sole,"

Jessie Fraser, "Feme Sole,"

Textiles and texts are related, sharing both origin and vocabulary, processes of repetition enacted in pursuit of communication. The weaving of words parallels the interlacing of threads as each medium works to convey meaning and narrative to its observer. Featuring six large jacquard weavings that pair portraits of nineteenth century criminals with excerpts from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Jessie Fraser’s Feme Sole functions both as a communicative gesture and as a memorial for three women whose criminal acts remain in the foreground of our collective understandings of their lives. Concerning processes of memory and recollection as well as the relationship between textiles and mortality, Feme Sole weaves fiction with reality, questioning the narratives and perceptions, both real and imagined, of deadly female criminals.