This site-specific installation is based on a photograph found in the archives of the Balteswil Historical Association (in TG, Switzerland).

The image of the factory printed in the newspaper was digitised by the artist and subjected to a process of abstraction. In this installation Elena Corvaglia focuses on the architectural features of the factory building. The subsequently reproduced image detail is assembled into a new ornament by means of a transfer print. A process of image creation that corresponds to an understanding of history that conceives of history as a multiplicity of «adding up» and overlapping histories and memories that repeatedly combine to form new patterns. The artist emphasises the influence that the embroidery industry had on the architecture as well as on the landscape of the region.

Elsa Himmer (text in German) for the exhibition FABRIK – Season 1. Auf Spurensuche

(https://fabrikbalterswil.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Saalplan_Fabrik_Season_1_final.pdf)