UNRAVEL
Barbican London & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
In Unravel, artists from around the world present extraordinary artworks, from large-scale, colorful and expressive installations, to delicate and intimate pieces about love, resilience, power, and resistance. The group show features over a hundred works by 45 artists, including such fameus names as Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, and Tracey Emin, but also younger artists. Textiles are the new way to tel1 stories in art. Textiles are a vital part of everyday life. They cover and protect you, stimulate your senses, trigger memories, represent your tastes and beliefs. Textiles have always been an underexamined medium in art history, but have recently been rediscovered by artists as a way to tel1 tales of love, resilience, power, and resistance. The colorful and extraordinary artworks in the group exhibition Unravel are radical in both form and content, showcasing a wide range of forms, scales, techniques, and perspectives. Some draw on age-old techniques, while ethers utilize new and experimental processes. Each of these artists uses fabric and thread to tel1 their personal histories, which also speak to current sociopolitical themes.
Project: Unravel, The power and politics of textiles in art
Client: Barbican Centre London & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Programm: exhibition
Location: Barbican Centre, London & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Date Londen: feb 2024 - sept 2024
Date Amsterdam: sept 2024 - jan 2025
Curators: Amanda Pinatih (Stedelijk Museum) and Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith (Barbican)
Graphic design : Atelier Dyakova
Constructor Amsterdam : Fiction factory
Constructor London : Raskl
Photography Londen: Jo Underhill
Photography Amsterdam: Peter Tijhuis