Spin Club Stories

• Photographer
  Astrid Reischwitz
• Technical Info
  N/a
• Photo Date
  2022

In Spin Club Stories I explore personal and cultural memory influenced by my upbringing in a small farming village in Northern Germany. I use keepsakes from family life, old photographs and embroidered fabric from the village to build a world of memory, identity, and home, that leads into the future. I take cues from the old tradition of spin clubs in my village, where village women met to spin well and create needlework - and share stories while they worked, My own embroidered designs are partial representations of my ancestral linens, emphasizing the fragmentary nature of recollection.

Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her current work incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany. Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Newport Art Museum, and Griffin Museum of Photography. Her first monograph Spin Club Stories was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.