You can tell an intriguing story with words, but also with other mediums, including threads and textiles as seen in the previous pieces posted during the last few days.
"Common Threads - Old and New Stories in Art and Design" an exhibition currently on at TextielMuseum in Tilburg (through 13th June 2021) explores for example the multiple ways of telling tales and the power of storytelling via art and design pieces revolving around textiles. Multiple stories - some mythical and even biblical, others modern - are told via fabrics and threads, touching upon themes like religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality.
Eylem Aladoğan, of Turkish-Kurdish descent, often works with sculptures and installations that fill the entire exhibition space, but this event features a smaller work, an image of two armed women proudly standing, covered with a very basic yet dense web-like embroidery, maybe hinting at the intricate stories (about male power and women? about relations? about freedom?) that you could easily weave about these two rebel girls.
Regula Maria Müller's pieces woven in a metallic mesh covered in bells (the inspiration behind Viktor & Rolf's A/W 2000 Couture collection View this photo?), tell instead the story of a magical fairy tale, while Jaime Hayon's "¿Que pasa güey?" designs (2011; from a pejorative Mexican slang word "güey" has turned into a more generic term, so this expression may be translated with "What's wrong with you, dude?" or "What's on, dude?") were inspired by the richness of colour and textures of Mexican wrestling masks. Hayon employs craftsmanship and traditional techniques to create his quirky and fun pieces and these masks were made with a fabric designed by Hayon together with the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg. And you, what will your textile story be like and what kind of threads and materials will you use to tell it?
Image credits for this post
"Two women" by Eylem Aladogan, 2017-2019
Photo: Tommy de Lange commissioned by the TextielMuseum
"The song of the fairy" by Regula Maria Müller, 1998
Photo: Josefina Eikenaar/TextielMuseum
"¿Que pasa guey?" by Jaime Hayon, 2011
Photo: Josefina Eikenaar/TextielMuseum
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