UNITE. / UNITED.
Paired Works (Installation + Object)
UNITE. reconfigures a soccer net into a suspended patchwork field, using fabric as both material and structure to examine queer visibility, collective identity, and relational belonging within sports. A form associated with regulation and division is transformed into a site of accumulation and interdependence, where discarded fabric remnants are hand-tied together with black thread and held through tension rather than uniformity. A chromatic gradient referencing the LGBTQIA+ pride flag situates queerness as materially embedded within the structure, asserting presence through accumulation rather than declaration. Legibility is delayed, as the word “unite” emerges only from distance or mediated viewing, reflecting the conditional and situational nature of recognition within queer athletic spaces.
UNITED. is a patchwork soccer ball constructed from the fabric remnants of UNITE., extending its exploration of queer visibility, collective identity, and relational belonging within women’s sports. The surface is stitched with the names of ten queer athletes who have competed in the National Women’s Soccer League, along with the years of their participation, rendered at a scale that resists immediate legibility. Framed as both object and archive, the ball reimagines sport as a site of collective memory, where recognition is partial, constructed, and sustained through attention and care.