It turned out to be multi-layered, interwoven and complex: Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn initiated the “Simone Weil Pavilion” project in Geneva (2026). He invited groups as well as individuals to participate. These participants, in turn, invited other individuals or groups to work and create on-site. Fraktalwerk was invited by the invited Simone Weil Denkkollektiv/Berlin – and spent two weeks on location. The presence featured an interactive Fraktalwerk installation by Robert Krokowski, an artist’s book by Marlen Wager and Robert Krokowski, who themselves invited Sonja Knoll from Vienna, dance performances by Libertad Esmeralda Iocco, as well as photo and video documentation by Juan Cruz Paz.

Embroidery as a Collective Ritual of Thought

A central element was also an eleven-week embroidery project serving as a connecting ritual: Inspired by spiritual exercises, each participant embroidered a thought, a sentence or a fragment onto their own piece of fabric. This contemplative form of “realising” combined meditation with a shared communal presence. During the final two weeks, all the pieces were sewn together into a large, shared tablecloth – a collective textile of thought and a visible fabric of time woven from hands, threads and words, which was explained to visitors by means of an embroidered text.