Entwined Matters - London

Date: July, 2025 Location: London, UK & Singapore Function: Rope/Shop Display Material: Off-cut textile Collaborator: Blackhorse Lane Ateliers Exhibition Organiser in Singapore: SUPERMAMA Photo: PAN- PROJECTS
Entwined Matters - London is a material study developed with London-based denim manufacturer Blackhorse Lane Atelier, transforming textile offcuts from local jean production into a single, continuous rope. The work recognises the craft and labour embedded in small-scale manufacturing by reassembling surplus materials into a new architectural artefact. Originally produced for the EMERGE 2025 exhibition in Singapore and presented at Marina Bay Sands, the rope later returned to London, where it was installed as a shop display at Blackhorse Lane Atelier’s Coal Drops Yard store. Through this movement between exhibition and everyday commercial space, the project traces how material value shifts across contexts while remaining grounded in its place of origin. As a continuation of PAN- PROJECTS’ Entwined Matters series, first developed in Estonia, the London edition brings the studio’s research on by-products closer to home, using materials sourced directly from its surrounding urban environment.

Entwined Matters - London forms part of PAN- PROJECTS’ long-running enquiry into Architecture of By-products, a body of work that examines how surplus materials can be reconfigured to reveal hidden systems of production, labour, and place. While earlier iterations of the project focused on industrial remnants in Estonia, the London edition shifts the lens to the studio’s immediate surroundings, working with by-products generated through local manufacturing processes. The project was developed in collaboration with Blackhorse Lane Atelier, a specialist denim maker known for producing high-quality jeans entirely within London. During the manufacturing process, narrow strips of denim offcuts are produced as a by-product. These fragments, though materially robust and rich in character, typically remain unseen by customers. For Entwined Matters - London, these offcuts were collected and manually twisted together to form a rope, binding individual remnants into a continuous object. The resulting rope functions as a physical record of accumulated labour. Each strand carries traces of cutting, handling, and stitching, compressing multiple stages of production into a single linear form. Rather than disguising its origins, the rope foregrounds the irregularity, colour variation, and density of the material, allowing the process of making to remain legible. The work was first presented at EMERGE 2025 in Singapore, where it was exhibited at Marina Bay Sands. Positioned within an international exhibition context, the rope operated as a representation of local London manufacturing abroad, detached from its original site yet still carrying its material narrative. Following the exhibition, the rope was relocated to Blackhorse Lane Atelier’s shop at Coal Drops Yard in London, where it was installed as part of the retail interior. This relocation was not treated as a secondary outcome but as a continuation of the project. Moving from exhibition display to shop installation, the rope entered an everyday environment closely linked to its source, allowing customers to encounter the by-product of the very garments produced on site. The project, therefore, exists across multiple states: artefact, exhibition piece, and spatial element within a working retail setting. Entwined Matters - London builds directly on the original Entwined Matters project realised in Estonia, which explored collective making through entangled industrial remnants. Together, the projects form a series that examines how materials circulate, accumulate meaning, and connect distant geographies through shared processes of making.



