Soft Monuments is a counter-monument project that proposes gentle, fragile, and temporary interventions in response to the hard, permanent, and authoritarian language of monumental architecture.

Drawing on the notion of the counter-monument developed by James E. Young, the project does not seek to destroy the monument, but rather to undo its fixed meaning from within. Lace, fabric, veils, and personal objects often perceived as “harmless” or “decorative” can circulate in public space and become a discreet strategy of infiltration.

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The project is structured around three main gestures: spreading, covering, and tying. These gestures are connected to women’s labor, domestic memory, intimacy, and ritual. When the softness of lace and fabric comes into contact with the hardness of stone or the monument, two regimes of memory encounter one another: domestic memory and public/monumental memory.

Here, the work is not a fixed object, but the temporary relationship that the object establishes with the site. Soft Monuments thus becomes a series of interventions that do not destroy the monument, but envelop it like a second skin, in order to soften and shift its authority.