Morus is an international silk community, practicing home-sericulture – meaning the breeding of silk worms in a small scale in one’s home – in order to engage local communities in historical processes regarding future silk production.
The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the intertwined relationships between silkworms, mulberry trees and humans, as well as to ask questions about these relationships from artistic, social, ecological and ethical perspectives.
The exhibition in Super-Ö presents artworks and research by seven members of the community with backgrounds in Greece, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. During the first weekend of the exhibition, a Silk Symposium takes place, offering a rich program of presentations, readings, workshops and film screenings to create a meeting place around the theme of silk. The room will be filled with stories from women in silk processes – industrial, private, ceremonial, mythological – in the past, today and for the future.
The Morus project was founded in Athens in 2022 by the artists Hanna Norrna, Irini Gonou and Kleopatra Tsali. Since then, the group has been working collectively with home-sericulture, exhibition productions and workshops of different kinds in Sweden and Greece. Read more about the project.
On view 4 – 28 September, 2025.
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Image: Hanna Norrna.