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In this episode of Dear Loving Objects, I’m joined by artist Mary Dyja, whose practice works through knitting and crocheting as a way of thinking about the relationship between the body and its environments.

Her work unfolds through slow, repetitive processes and explores how materials, bodies, and micro-environments come into relation — through tension, collaboration, and care. Moving between wearable forms, soft structures, and spatial installations, her practice creates organic, often soft sculptural forms that resemble processes of growth and transformation .

This episode touches on what it means to inhabit space under unstable conditions, and how making can become a way of relating — to materials, to others, and to forms of life that don’t fully settle.

Mary Dyja is currently part of a group exhibition exploring home as a process of arrival, return, and ongoing inhabitation.

Links

https://www.instagram.com/shesaidgallery

https://www.instagram.com/biocrochet/

https://www.instagram.com/vytik_art_collective/

This episode looks at how collective life continues after the 2020 Belarus protests. Through works by Marina Naprushkina, Nadya Sayapina, and Elena Rabkina, it explores collectivity beyond representation — in care, language, and fragmentation.

Silvia Federici — Revolution at Point Zero / writings on reproduction and commons

Jack Halberstam — The Queer Art of Failure

Zoe Leonard — I want a president

Marina Naprushkina

I want a president (2021)

https://marina-naprushkina.de/i-want-a-president-2/

Nadya Sayapina

Dollhouse (2020)

https://cargocollective.com/NadyaSayapina/DOLLHOUSE

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nadyasayapina1411

Elena Rabkina

Belarusian Dream (2024)

https://www.ifa.de/en/blog/article/belarusian-brushstrokes-of-resilience/

https://rabkina.org/

What does it mean to love politically?

In this introductory episode I explain why this podcast exists, what ideas shaped it, and how objects, relations, and care can help us rethink collectivity.