Tag: Textiles
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When mental states find material expression
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations at Whitechapel Gallery surveys four decades of work through sculpture, collage and drawing. Moving beyond themes of migration and memory, the exhibition reveals Ryan’s exceptional ability to give physical form to psychological experience.
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Surviving the webs of life
Beyond simple memory, the Hayward Gallery hosts a visceral confrontation between Yin Xiuzhen’s sociopolitical textiles and Chiharu Shiota’s psychological webs. A staggering dialogue between the world we have ruined through rapid modernisation and the body that must endure it.
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The creative potential of textiles in art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican Art Gallery in London brings together over 100 works by 50 international artists. Spanning the 1960s to today, the exhibition explores textiles as a powerful artistic medium—examining weaving, stitching, and fibre as tools for storytelling, resistance, and cultural memory.