A Vocabulary of Care

How can care be deployed as a strategy to resist dominant power structures? Inspired by observing the meticulous gestures of the museum’s storage manager tending to art objects, Grace Schwindt developed A Vocabulary of Care. In collaboration with dancers, she translated this vocabulary into a movement language, which is performed in dialogue with both a film and a large-scale textile installation. Her exhibition, A History of Touch, emerged from a two-year residency at M Leuven, where she studied conservation protocols for museum objects and their broader restoration histories.