Interwoven Histories - Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles masque anthropologiques

anthropologiques

At a moment when grief and anger dominate public and private life

The play on the direction of the cord's cut and the mix of sizes and surfaces breaks the "straight-grain" rules

where memory takes on new forms and new languages emerge from the fractures of the past

qui est enfin publiée en français

Interwoven Histories - Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles masque anthropologiquesIn 'Interwoven Histories: Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles' curator and textile researcher Christel Vesters unravels the intricate connections between textile, history, and society from a contemporary art perspective. Through essays and detailed examination of five seminal works of contemporary art, she looks at textile and textile techniques as a medium and as a mediator, exploring how textile objects old and new bear witness to