Pierre Fouche, Portrait of Hanlie sons (private commission)

Pierre Fouche was Social Fabric artist-in-residence at FALKE SA, a sock manufacturer. As Pierre’s practice is rooted in hand-work and FALKE, like all major manufacturers, is reliant on machines, this may seem like an odd pairing. But it is this very incongruity that we hope could yield unexpected thinking. How might human flexibility intervene in the machine process, and could machines in turn inform human irregularity? Here, Pierre uses FALKE's thicker and multi-varieted coloured threads to make a portrait.