How to Heal a Broken World
This is not a solution. It’s a question. A broken world doesn’t heal through numbers, policies, or plans alone.
It heals through memory. Through connection. Through meaning.
This ribbon doesn’t fix the world. But it invites us to feel it again. To touch what we’ve lost and imagine what we could still repair.
The Ribbon That Connects Us
A 100-meter-long, expanding textile ribbon installation, made from used fabric—not polished, not perfect, but alive. Patched. Faded. Full of memory. A growing artwork and a shared archive. The ribbon weaves itself into monuments, social spaces, and historical as well as contemporary structures, inviting us into dialogue and reflections, but most importantly to healing and hope for a better world.
Follow the ribbon as it travels across locations
This ribbon moves. From place to place. From story to story.
Every installation adds something new materially and emotionally.
A journey that never ends, but always deepens.
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Munich, Villa Stuck
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Augustusburg, Schloss
A place full of imperial history and industrial scars. Saxony was once the epicenter of European textile production. Today, only traces remain. The ribbon wraps around the trees of Augustusburg Castle. A quiet tribute to a lost legacy. And a region in transformation.
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Munich, Alte Utting
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Ghana, Jamestown Fishing Harbour
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Ghana, Kpone Landfill
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku (born 1994, Cape Coast) is a multidisciplinary artist and civil engineer from Accra, Ghana. He works with discarded textiles and second-hand clothing to explore memory, identity, environmental degradation, climate change and sustainability. His textile installations are immersive—part performance, part provocation—always rooted in material, culture and community.
What This Ribbon Unlocks
Fast fashion leaves no story. But worn fabric holds the weight of life.
A cheap t-shirt disappears. But a jacket worn for decades? It carries more history than most books.
This work triggers reflection: on what we wear, and what we throw away.
What This Artwork Does
This isn’t a protest. It’s a provocation. Not loud – but lasting.
What does your fabric say about you?
What memory lives in your clothes?
And what are we losing in our rush to discard?
The ribbon doesn’t preach. It asks.
The Project Itself
This ribbon doesn’t just travel. It absorbs.
Every location leaves a trace through place, people, and textile.
At each site, people contribute their own fabrics. Their own stories. Their own memory.
It grows with every stop not just in length, but in soul.
Do you know a place with history? A story worth stitching into this band?
→ Tell us. We choose with care because every thread matters.
Who We Are
To-Choose – a gallery that uses art to activate sustainability, to turns strategy into story, and numbers into emotion. Together, we’re building this archive – not for answers, but for connection.
This ribbon doesn’t just travel. It transforms.
With every place it visits, it grows – in fabric, in meaning, in soul.
People contribute their textiles, their stories, their past.
Each thread becomes a testimony. A trace.
For artist Emmanuel Thieku, this is more than an artwork.
It’s a long-term vision:
To turn discarded textiles into symbols of memory, resistance, and regeneration.
To use art, material storytelling, and circular design
to address broken systems – socially, spiritually, environmentally.
Over the next 15 years, Emmanuel merges his engineering background
with artistic research to explore sustainable textile futures.
This is not a statement. It’s a question.
A call for memory. For meaning. For change.
Do you know a place with history?
A story worth stitching into this band?
→ Tell us. We choose with care because every thread matters.
Follow the Ribbon
The ribbon continues to grow. Its next stop: the Isar River. Then Paris. Then Slovenia. Then… who knows?
Follow the ribbon as it travels across locations
A place full of imperial history and industrial scars. Saxony was once the epicenter of European textile production. Today, only traces remain. The ribbon wraps around the trees of Augustusburg Castle. A quiet tribute to a lost legacy. And a region in transformation.
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku (born 1994, Cape Coast) is a multidisciplinary artist and civil engineer from Accra, Ghana. He works with discarded textiles and second-hand clothing to explore memory, identity, environmental degradation, climate change and sustainability. His textile installations are immersive—part performance, part provocation—always rooted in material, culture and community.