For some years now an element of my practice has involved creating site-specific installations with fishing line and suspended elements. The pieces are built in situ, with repetitive threading, line by line, between two fixed elements. Through this process I create somewhat architectural-like structures, sometimes empty and sometimes containing swarms of fishing flies, insect wings or shattered stained glass. These works only live in this form for as long as the show is open. It’s their first temporary life form. Collapsing my site-specific installations has become a ritual, a process of releasing the structure by removing the elements that hold the line in place and allowing gravity, chance and chaos to create a new form, a container is then created to hold the piece in its next life. 

Collapsing her site-specific installations has become a ritual for Lace. The process involves releasing the structure by removing the elements that hold the line in place and allowing gravity, chance and chaos to create a new form, a container is then created to hold the piece in its next life. 

“Some conditions of life, like death, will not and cannot easily be ameliorated by time. Time is what she juxtaposes with her crushed, wounded and dead - trapped under glue or glass, cocooned in chaotic threads of gut – which then veers towards and conjures light. 

Lace the artist as architect, or, surgeon saving life. We are its’ human dimension”

Koulla Xinisteris; Lace and Light, 2014.