Puzzle Pieces: Siri Johansen, Pati Passero and Celia Pym in Kyoto
A knitting swatch pulled from a bin, a paper napkin from a café table, a shard of ceramic left over from the kiln. These are not the materials most exhibitions are built from, but Puzzle Pieces, opening at Gojozaka Shimizu Gallery in Kyoto on 23rd May, makes a persuasive case for taking them seriously.
Waste Yarn Project and Celia Pym, Patch Test Sweater front and back (2025).
The show brings together three artists and designers who work across different disciplines and different cities. Siri Johansen, the Norwegian knitwear designer behind Waste Yarn Project, is based in Paris. Pati Passero, a visual designer whose practice moves fluidly between graphic design, print and art, works from Oslo. Celia Pym, the London-based artist and Associate Lecturer in Textiles at the Royal College of Art, has spent nearly two decades mending garments and thinking hard about what that act means. Despite the distance between them, they share a commitment to materials that would ordinarily be thrown away, and to process itself as a form of research...
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Image Credits:
Lead: Waste Yarn Project and Celia Pym, Newspaper patch sweater (detail).
All images courtesy of the artists and as credited in photo captions.