Designed and handmade by Gabriela Mestriner. 

Crafted from 100% sewn mop refill — a composition of reimagined utility
 

 

Developed during a studio guided by Allan Wexler, this project is part of an ongoing investigation into everyday cleaning tools and the forms of labor they imply.

Rather than focusing on efficiency or optimization, the work shifts attention to the body behind the act — the one that bends, reaches, repeats. 
The mop refill is reimagined as a wearable element, moving closer to the body and blurring the line between object and action. In this displacement, cleaning is no longer something performed by a tool, but something carried, worn, and embodied.

There is also a subtle presence of who performs this labor — historically and culturally — without fixing it into a single narrative. The piece holds this space in between: between object and body, function and gesture, visibility and routine.