All The Small Things
Three young international designers, Yufei Gao, Julie Merlino and Eszter Nagy, were inspired by the rich history of Kortrijk. Textiles are therefore the common thread in their work, where they explore the boundaries between craftsmanship, tradition and new technologies.
Kortrijk is remembered for two things: as a textile city since the Middle Ages and as a frontier. Since the 1820 Treaty of Courtrai, 300 stone border posts have marked the division with France. In 2021, Belgium got a little bigger when a farmer moved that border by 2.29 metres.
A fascinating history that Yufei Gao tackles in her video projection entitled A border is not a boundary. She built a border post in linen and filmed it while wandering along the French-Belgian border. In doing so, she commemorates how people, industry and migration are intertwined.
Light reacts differently to materials: it reflects, deflects or creates a sheen. Like when you look at Belgian damask, a traditional weaving technique for which Kortrijk was known in the 16th century. The fabric鈥檚 complex structure and the designs it incorporates provide an interesting viewing experience.
This dynamic fascinated Julie Merlino. With A change in frequency, she explores fabrics that shift dynamically based on the viewer鈥檚 perception and position. The research is based on phenomena such as the moir茅 movement effect and makes microstructures visible.
A binary logic connects the worlds of computers and weaving. In computers, it determines whether a pixel is drawn or not; in weaving, the same binary reasoning takes place when the warp thread is raised or lowered.
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Three young international designers, Yufei Gao, Julie Merlino and Eszter Nagy, were inspired by the rich history of Kortrijk. Textiles are therefore the common thread in their work, where they explore the boundaries between craftsmanship, tradition and new technologies.
Kortrijk is remembered for two things: as a textile city since the Middle Ages and as a frontier. Since the 1820 Treaty of Courtrai, 300 stone border posts have marked the division with France. In 2021, Belgium got a little bigger when a farmer moved that border by 2.29 metres.
A fascinating history that Yufei Gao tackles in her video projection entitled A border is not a boundary. She built a border post in linen and filmed it while wandering along the French-Belgian border. In doing so, she commemorates how people, industry and migration are intertwined.
Light reacts differently to materials: it reflects, deflects or creates a sheen. Like when you look at Belgian damask, a traditional weaving technique for which Kortrijk was known in the 16th century. The fabric鈥檚 complex structure and the designs it incorporates provide an interesting viewing experience.
This dynamic fascinated Julie Merlino. With A change in frequency, she explores fabrics that shift dynamically based on the viewer鈥檚 perception and position. The research is based on phenomena such as the moir茅 movement effect and makes microstructures visible.
A binary logic connects the worlds of computers and weaving. In computers, it determines whether a pixel is drawn or not; in weaving, the same binary reasoning takes place when the warp thread is raised or lowered.
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