• Zoe Bilgeri
    • ___transforms discarded materials, particularly textile waste, through low-tech-natural binding processes into new hybrid systems opening up new visual, haptic and tectonic horizons. Informed through her background in architecture and art, she crafts artistic artefacts, spatial installations and objects that negotiate between gestures of conservation and speculative futures.
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  • Work
    • a head___art
      • Light-permeable and semi-rigid sculpture made from textile waste, bonded with bone glue and finished with tung oil.

        Its surface folds into a luminous, skin-like volume that diffuses light while holding a delicate balance between collapse and stability.

    • shell___art
      • Tectonic sculpture made from textile waste, bonded with bone glue and coloured gypsum.

        Within this work, textiles transform into a crust, echoing the growth lines of mollusk shells that record seasonal and environmental change.

    • after the wing___art
      • Textile fresco made from textile waste, bonded with bone and casein glue and coloured with mineral pigments.
        The surface condensed into a wing or collapsed body, a fossil-like trace of suspended movement.

    • white fragment___art
      • Glued, stiffened, and coloured post-consumer textile waste.
        The surface settles into a thin, skin-like fragment forming a quiet bodily presence.

    • fish on the ground___art
      • textile sculpture out of textile waste glued with bone glue and coloured textile waste.
        The works evoke the logic of the specimen: a skin that persists as an autonomous sculptural presence, negotiating the afterlife of matter.

    • sediment skin___art
      • suspended structure out of glued, stiffened, and coloured post-consumer textile waste.
        As a sedimented skin, the work records processes of accumulation that holds the afterlife of material between residue and transformation.

    • digital diary___art
      • Digital image collage composed of modified textiles and digital overlays
        These translations allow to approach the digital not as mere representation, but as an epistemic terrain in its own right. Within the porous continuum of our increasingly blurred digital landscape, the work traces topographies of dissolution.

    • the house___spatial installation
      • Spatial installation model at a scale of 1:5, made from stiffened textile composites, exploring their structural and atmospheric potential.
        The layered textile surfaces unfold into an enclosing formation, defining a spatial condition between cave, body, and landscape.

    • spatial installation: fragile arms
      • Site-specific installation made from textile waste glued and stiffened with bone glue, coloured with mineral pigments and coated with tung oil.
        Extending across the exterior of an old factory building, textile arms reach outward to establish a dialogue with the architectural remnants, acting as connective-agents that negotiate spatial practice as an organism of relations.

    • spatial installation: skin of the ground
      • A utopian topography made from bone glue–stiffened textile remnants, coloured with earth and mineral pigments and sealed with tung oil.
        The work unfolds as a fragile skin of the ground, where layered accumulations form a speculative landscape.

    • fragile tectonics___spatial installation
      • traces how architecture oscillates between the dream of universality and the grounding of situated practice. the juxtaposition of two contradictory figures—my grandmother’s acts of preserving and repurposing, and konrad wachsmann’s modular systems—opens a dialogue between universalism and hyper-locality, between the heroic narrative of progress and the quieter story of care, adaptability, and the unfinished.
        from this tension emerged both an essay and a series of textile sculptures made from coloured and stiffened factory offcuts in germany. fragile architectures, which explore fragmentary joints and provisional connections. rather than striving for absoluteness, they embody cycles of dissolution and reinvention, echoing my grandmother’s gestures of reuse and point towards wachsmann’s structural experiments.

    • light___object
      • Lighting objects made from semi-rigid, translucent textile composites, developed from discarded textiles, natural binders, and pigments. By preserving the fragmentary nature of the waste, the developed material is positioned as a carrier of memory and value, unfolding as luminous structures that engage with the cultural and ecological dimensions of material transformation.

  • Research
    • mineral binders
      • kkk
      • material reconfiguration: textile waste
        • Investigates the structural and aesthetic potential of discarded textiles through their hybridisation with organic and mineral binders. Through this processes, composite materials emerge that challenge conventional distinctions and reactivate overlooked resources into new spatial and sensory forms.

    • tectonic: the fold remembers
      • explores folding as both a structural and cultural operation. Each folding marks a point where movement becomes form and time is momentarily held. Rather than fixing geometry, folding articulates space through relation and memory: every twist and overlap records a sequence of performed structure. In this sense, the fold is both element and event, an imprint that organises matter and orientation at once. By embracing change rather than resisting it, the work proposes a constructive language grounded in adaptability.

2026 - [105 × 55 × 43 cm] – Zuerich
2026 - [115 × 85 x 55 cm] - zuerich 2026 - [115 × 85 x 55  cm] - zuerich
2026 - [72 × 57 × 21 cm] – zuerich 2026 - [72 × 57 × 21 cm] – zuerich 2026 - [72 × 57 × 21 cm] – zuerich
2026 - [35 × 68 × 12 cm] – zuerich
2026 - [90 × 35 × 25 cm]  - zuerich 2026 - [95 × 40 × 15 cm] - zuerich
2026 - [102 × 154 × 34 cm] - zuerich
2025 -  [815 × 1120 pixel]  - zurich 2025 -  [815 × 1120 pixel]  - zurich 2025 -  [815 × 1120 pixel]  - zurich 2025 -  [815 × 1120 pixel]  - zurich
2026 - [140 × 120 × 65 cm] – zuerich
2024 - installation process - leipzig 2024 - [189 x 423 cm] - leipzig
2024 - [223 x 98 x 48 cm] - leipzig 2024 - [223 x 98 x 48 cm] - leipzig 2024 - [223 x 98 x 48 cm] - leipzig 2024 - [223 x 98 x 48 cm] - leipzig
fragile tectonics___spatial installation wachsmann_the second [142/42/39 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar wachsmann_the second [142/42/39 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar wachsmann_the first [143/67/53 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar wachsmann_the first [143/67/53 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar fragile tectonics___spatial installation wachsmann_the first [143/67/53 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar wachsmann_the second [142/42/39 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar
2026 - [42 × 18 × 17 cm] - zuerich 2026 - [42 × 18 × 17 cm] - zuerich 2026 - [38 × 16 × 12 cm] - zuerich 2026 - [38 × 16 × 12 cm] - zuerich
a shape [12/34/2 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar a shape [34/32/8 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar a shape [23/34/6 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar a shape [14/24/5 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar a shape [21/40/3 cm] textile remnants stiffened with flour paste - colored with self-produced pigments - zoe bilgeri/ 2024/ weimar
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