Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.
Image: T. Vinoja, Bunker & border, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Experimenter. Image above: Sheila Hicks, Family Treasures, 1993 © Sheila Hicks, ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2023, courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped in cloth when we’re born and enshrouded in it when we die.
Image: Tracey Emin, No chance (WHAT A YEAR), 1999. © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022. Image courtesy White Cube. Photo: Stephen White & Co.
As an artistic medium, textiles can speak to the joys and pains of being human, as well as the larger structures and systems that shape our world..........................
Image: T. Vinoja, Bunker & border, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Experimenter. Image above: Sheila Hicks, Family Treasures, 1993 © Sheila Hicks, ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2023, courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped in cloth when we’re born and enshrouded in it when we die.
Image: Tracey Emin, No chance (WHAT A YEAR), 1999. © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022. Image courtesy White Cube. Photo: Stephen White & Co.
As an artistic medium, textiles can speak to the joys and pains of being human, as well as the larger structures and systems that shape our world..........................
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