Patricia Chez Soi

Embroidered and printed tapestries. Products of a Loneliness Factory (Einsamkeitsfabrik), which was a collective performance coordinated by Felisha Maria Bahadur, within the context of Michael Beutler's teaching at Wall 40 for the Muthesius University of Art and Design, in Kiel, from 2016-17.

Patricia Chez Soi: So Lonely
Participants were granted an isolated 8-hour stay in a living space with adjoined workshop. The artist took their mobile phones and ironed her own phone number into a single item of the participants' clothing. Participants – who included Melina Bigale, Nane Boysen, Jakob Braune and Annaliisa Krage – were then given a journal and a list of tasks within the space and in the city. Attempting to concretise a cultural brand of loneliness, some of these tasks were:

• begin a Princess Diana puzzle from the brand Ravensburger

• take a taxi to go to the oldest nearby Cemetery

• have dinner alone at a traditional bayerisch restaurant

• hand-embroider golden fleur-de-lys onto a woolen moroccan blanket

• note whatever you feel in the shared diary

• go to a 6pm Mass at the nearby St Nikolai church

• create stencils out of stick-on wallpaper

• have a nap

These tapestries and other artworks (not shown) are the result of their efforts and the artist's after-care.