2019 - 2023

Aya Huma

A series of performances to camera made in the studio and live

Aya Huma - Entangled

2024

Performed at Pandora Gallery, Kreuzburg, Berlin, as part of the Women of the World IV performance event, January 25th 2024. In the performance the artist wore a knitted, two faced mask, from Ecuador. The artist walked around the cellar space of the gallery, chanting “Knit one, Pearl one”. The performer was then joined by other knitters who entangle her in the knitted ribbons that extend from the mask.

Aya Huma - Entangled

2023

Performed at The Silk Mill in Frome, as part of the Frome Festival, July 17th 2023. The work references the tradition of Maypole Dancing, as women bond, through knitting, they surround and entangle the central figure.

Aya Huma - Entangled

2023

Using the Aya Huma mask, that has been added to by the artist’s knitting, this performance was workshopped at Feet Up. A Biddy event in at Magdelane Road Studios in Oxford in May 2023 with members of Biddy Boost, a group of older women artists. The aritst, wearing the mask, was surrounded by women knitting. Music was playing, each time the music stopped the knitters moved around one seat, gradually entangling the central figure.

Aya Huma - Chasing Demons

2019

Aya Huma is a character who appears at summer solstice festivals in Ecuador to chase away demons. This performance to camera uses an Ecuadorean mask of Aya Huma to interrogate the questions and doubts that face us all.

I can I can’t

2020

This performance was made in the studio in 2020, using the knitted Aya Huma mask from Ecuador, the performer continued to ”knit herself” into the mask. This piece was made at a time of lockdown due to the Covid Pandemic.

Aya Huma - Entangled

2022

Still using the Aya Huma mask, that has been added to by the artist’s knitting, this performance to camera interrogates the feelings of frustration and entanglement that we can sometimes feel

Aya Huma - Spiked

2022

This performance was made in the studio in 2022, using the knitted Aya Huma mask from Ecuador to convey the sense of frustration and suffocation that many of us felt after the Pandemic.