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The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles
Textiles are at the heart of the ifa touring exhibition, which focuses on questions including: What inherent meanings and messages can be found in fabrics? What is their cultural significance? How can textiles be 鈥榬ead鈥�? What can fabrics tell us about their origins, meanings and social roles? Which traditional textile techniques have artists appropriated, abstracted, relocated and brought back to life? Textiles constitute a locus in which art encounters handicraft, traditions meet the present day, and local knowledge intersects with global relationships.
The exhibition highlights the multiple complex ways in which the participating artists work with textiles. They link personal and aesthetic narratives with the social and economic configuration of a globalized world. In 1965, Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described 鈥渢he event of a thread鈥� as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it signifies constant scope to rethink relations and to restructure connections and contexts.
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Textiles are at the heart of the ifa touring exhibition, which focuses on questions including: What inherent meanings and messages can be found in fabrics? What is their cultural significance? How can textiles be 鈥榬ead鈥�? What can fabrics tell us about their origins, meanings and social roles? Which traditional textile techniques have artists appropriated, abstracted, relocated and brought back to life? Textiles constitute a locus in which art encounters handicraft, traditions meet the present day, and local knowledge intersects with global relationships.
The exhibition highlights the multiple complex ways in which the participating artists work with textiles. They link personal and aesthetic narratives with the social and economic configuration of a globalized world. In 1965, Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described 鈥渢he event of a thread鈥� as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it signifies constant scope to rethink relations and to restructure connections and contexts.
Artists on show
- Andreas Exner
- Bauhaus School
- Christa Jeitner
- Elisa van Joolen
- Eran Schaerf
- Eva Meyer
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Heide Hinrichs
- Hristina Ivanoska
- Jovan Josifovski
- Judith Raum
- Karen Michelsen Castanón
- Klelija Zivkovic
- Kristina Bozurska
- Noa Eshkol
- Olaf Holzapfel
- Uli Fischer
- Ulla von Brandenburg
- Vincent Vulsma
- Yane Calovski
- Zille Homma Hamid
- Zorica Zafirovska
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