Astrid Reischwitz follows a path through the lives of her ancestors, their layout of a perfect pattern and the mistakes they made.
In Spin Club Stories, Astrid Reischwitz explores personal and cultural memory influenced by her upbringing in a small farming village in Northern Germany. She uses keepsakes from family life, old photographs and embroidered fabric from the village to build a world of memory, identity and home. The Boston based artist takes cues from the old tradition of spin clubs in her village, where village women met to spin wool and create needlework—and share stories while they worked. She transforms this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey. Her own embroidered designs are partial representations of her ancestral linens, emphasizing the fragmentary nature of recollection. By following the stitches in these fabrics, she follows a path through the lives of her ancestors and converses with the past.
Astrid Reischwitz is a Boston-based photographer whose work explores the possibilities of storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces and reflections on her own history and values.
She has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards.
Her work has been exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Newport Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.
She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.
Astrid Reischwitz is a Boston-based photographer whose work explores the possibilities of storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces and reflections on her own history and values.
She has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards.
Her work has been exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Newport Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.
She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.