“I interviewed shoplifters, I proposed to make them a piece of clothe for their practice. Together we discussed craft. Me, as a tailor, them, as shoplifter, we met through garments, and pockets. Their craft along with the practice of everyday life. How shoplifting it is not just something that they do, but also what shoplifting does to them!
Together, we revealed subjectivities.
Their subversive subjectivities. I’ve been amazed by these singular experiences, sharp and fragile, illegal theories. I wanted to share these interviews, but their words are, I think, extremely vulnerable. I made a publication from all these interviews, an anthology of talks. The retranscription of their conversations, stories, their social, political, ethical, and moral perspectives around shoplifting.
My aim was to set up, through words, the (potentially) impossible encounter between different subjectivities.”
A richly illustrated experimental essay on shoplifting, approached through textile, a Rietveld graduation thesis, designed by Théodora Jacobs.
Soft cover, stapled on the short side and folded, 24,5 x 15,5 cm, 34 pages, reprinted ed., Amsterdam 2024
