I SEE YOU
SEEING ME

I See You Seeing Me

in collaboration with Manka Menga.

See You Seeing Me is a collaboration between poet Manka Menga and textile artist Katharina Spitz. The work unfolds through a constellation of materials and expressions: two embroidered Khangas, a crying dress crocheted from human hair and adorned with glass beads, a delicate hair-veil, a soundscape interwoven with spoken word and a lament by Sofie Schietekatte, and a gestural performance that binds it all together.

Through these intertwined forms, the artists explore themes of womanhood, social cohesion, and memory. The performative work merges object, word, and embodiment, creating a living dialogue between material and voice, silence and gesture.

What unites Menga and Spitz is a shared longing—rooted in a critical yet open view of time, space, and society. Their practice is poetic, critical, and unflinchingly honest. While Menga distills experience into language, Spitz translates societal conflicts into the tangible world of fabric, thread, and texture.

Together, they have created a threefold work that illuminates shared experiences and a collective yearning for connection, belonging, and communal transformation. See You Seeing Me becomes both a mirror and a meeting place—where vulnerability and strength coexist, and where art itself becomes an act of seeing, and being seen.