Gladys Nganare – Visible Mending / Participatory performance

Led by Gladys Nganare, this walk-in workshop invites participants to repair and transform textiles through visible mending. Reflecting on care, sustainability and inherited knowledge, the workshop recognises repair as both a creative and cultural practice, showing how stories, skills and traditions continue to be shared and carried forward across generations.

Working primarily with Japanese paper, Gladys Nganare creates minimalist works through layering, tearing and stitching. Her practice creates space for slowness, silence and attention, proposing softness and rest as conditions for reflection and care.

Within FOR THE CULTURE, Nganare presents three paper works alongside a participatory stitching performance. Visitors contribute words, memories and wishes that gradually become part of a collective composition, demonstrating how care, repair and shared authorship can become forms of cultural transmission.

Free entrance – no registration needed

This workshop is part of SUMMER OF MINO – FOR THE CULTURE, a monthlong, citywide programme of exhibitions, performances and interventions across Antwerp.