2024 INDUSTRIEMUSEUM
Join Hand in Hand with All Who Work, solo exhibition
Industriemuseum, Ghent
May 4 – June 30, 2024
Photos: copyright Martin Corlazzoli for the Museum of Industry, Ghent
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Join Hand in Hand with All Who Work
Collaboration has been a fundamental tool since the beginning of my Curtain project, which are textile artworks mostly made working with different people, in different contexts, and places, using different materials and techniques, always influenced by two important references, the history of geometric abstraction (both Western and Indigenous), and the textile knowledge particular to the region where the project is developed. In this sense, my exhibitions are also research projects, from a historical and a personal perspective. The title “Curtains” intends to guide the conversation about the works from a domestic perspective, from the politics of daily life.
The 13 textile pieces that compose this exhibition were fabricated during a residency at the Industriemuseum, working with the infrastructure and materials that the museum provides, its fabrics, yarns, machinery, and knowledge. To make the residency community-focused, I conducted an open workshop during February and March of 2024, where participants were introduced to basic embroidery techniques, or if they had experience, they could join and practice, even help me teach. This methodology aims to be as horizontal as possible.
The overall designs of each piece are part of a long-ongoing drawing practice, based on almost infinite formal solutions to a simple grid, to the partition of a surface. These drawings are transferred to textiles and later installed, occupying and re-organizing space, in dialogue with the museum’s architecture and history.
Considering the textile tradition of Ghent, and the importance of the cotton industry in the social and political history of its people and the city, the idea of getting together and slowing down, to work and talk, seems like a push for micro-utopian moments, of care, of mutual understanding, all in a collaborative space of learning and making.
Many thanks to Kenneth Santy, for his TC2 and Jacquard Loom guidance, and to Laurence De Craene, for her invaluable assistance in dying cotton, turning them into wonderful black and yellow colors.
My warmest and deepest thanks to all the workshop participants: Paz Ortúzar, Felipe Muhr, Fabiola Burgos Labra, Linda Mayer, Sebastian Kulbaka, Noah Kulbaka, Roan Windels, Jim Pulguere, Vani Oza, Aida Carvalho, Stan Steegeling, Imke Tys, Isabelle Verthé, Katia De Busscher, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Tine De Weerdt, Dora Boeraeve, Alyson Van Mullen, Griet Noels, Kristien Van Poucke, Maj Van Giel, Manuella Noterdaeme, Veerle Maes, Annemie Vandorpe, Katleen De Turck, Hanna Prudnikova, Erwina D’hoore, Suzanne Pauwels, Violette Foulon, An Vandevyvere, Serge Sfefaniak, Katrien Heyman, Carine Van Remoortere, Katelijn Van Moere, Chris Cappelle, Josie Vranken, Neve Bükszegi, Nancy Meirhaeghe, Delphine Labyt, Isabel Van Lierde, Jule De Mecheleer, Carla Poppe, Fien Straetmans, Marina Palmieri, Luz María Braithwaite, Julie Van Der Elstraeten, Domingo Inostroza, Sara Mohammad, Sabine Van Lancker, Doreen Rogin, Lieve Huys, Heidi Verstappen, Jolien Van Goethem, Eva Da Cunha E Silva, Luise Honecker, Ann Foquet, Lieve Bolseus, Piró Pallaghy, Marie-Paule Doom, Camille Breslin, Maria Elizalde, Sevgí Gerçek, Anita De Backer, Lena Vanhout & Femke Pauwels.
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Views of Embroidery and Production Workshop
Artist residency
February 1 – March 31, 2024
Photos: Felipe Mujica
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As an intersection of two projects one workshop was conducted based on the exhibition project by artist Gustave Demoen, in which he invited 33 artists to participate in the collective exhibition “Great Noses Are Blown Alike — Zakdoekenpocket — Les Mouchoirs de Poche”, all handkerchief devotees. Images below.
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