In 1962 Magdalena Abakanowicz was invited to participate in the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennale.
"I found it fascinating, not realizing that I was entering a kind of ghetto, and that from this moment on I would be labelled a fiber artist". M. A.
love how these words and work stitch deep into the heart of one of the big sticking points with working with cloth as a medium, how the ordinariness of the materials & processes can marginalize ourselves and our art... & why we choose this? how often in interviews with fibre & textile artists the work is differentiated from the past by saying "this is not what your grandmother or auntie does"... and yet it is... you always strike a cord with asking the big questions, doing the research and backing it up with beautiful work
ReplyDeleteThe work on this wall is giving me energy...I can't really explain it, but I am not able to not try to make sense of this mish mash of past experiments.
ReplyDeleteI could analyze it and try to find meaning....because there is always a meaning for everything we do....but I don't have time.
I have to sew.
I have to.
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the haptic sense...
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