In various languages, the term tissue refers both to textiles and to the body, encompassing epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous layers. The English word derives from Old French tissu ('woven'), the past participle of tistre, from Latin texere—'to weave.' A tissue can describe a thin, transparent, and lightweight material, as well as a disposable Kleenex.

Laundry Station explores the relationship between anatomical tissues and textile fabrics, and the ways in which these two realms intertwine. Blending figurative elements that dissolve into abstraction, the drawings move toward the threshold between representation and ornamentation, echoing through mise en abyme the surface of printed fabric. In this shifting interplay, questions begin to surface: can fabric hold the imprint of a body? What patterns emerge, and where do they originate?

With the support of the City of Geneva and the Canton Geneva DCS

Jean-Marie Fahy (CH/IE - 1992) is a Geneva-based artist. His work questions the relationship with the body, the creation of its images and the possibilities of emancipation linked to it. He has performed and exhibited at the Centre d'art contemporain de Genève, the Edmond de Rotschild Center in Tel Aviv, C'est déjà demain festival, Espace Arlaud and the Théâtre du Galpon, among others.