You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry
Opening 11 April, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context. Featuring works by thirty artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry 鈥� between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation. Across monumental works of great detail, the exhibition expands our experiences of narrative and mythology in weaving, complicates traditional ethnographic associations of textile, and argues for the enduring possibility of image and memory as a physically substantive thing.
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Opening 11 April, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context. Featuring works by thirty artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry 鈥� between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation. Across monumental works of great detail, the exhibition expands our experiences of narrative and mythology in weaving, complicates traditional ethnographic associations of textile, and argues for the enduring possibility of image and memory as a physically substantive thing.
Artists on show
- Analia Saban
- Ane Henriksen
- Candice Lin
- Caroline Achaintre
- Christina Forrer
- Christy Matson
- Clarissa Tossin
- Consuelo Jiménez Underwood
- Diedrick Brackens
- El Anatsui
- Goshka Macuga
- Hellen Ascoli
- Jorge Méndez Blake
- Josh Faught
- Jovencio de la Paz
- Kiki Smith
- Kira Dominguez Hultgren
- Lee ShinJa
- Mai-Thu Perret
- Marie Hazard
- Melissa Cody
- Mika Tajima
- Miranda Fengyuan Zhang
- Sanaa Gateja
- Sanam Khatibi
- Sarah Rosalena
- Tomasz Kowalski
- Yann Gerstberger
- Yto Barrada
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