From birth to death, textiles are a constant companion to human life. Throughout history, the creation of objects for clothing, sustenance, and decoration have reflected both individual and collective identities and cultures.
Conversation Threads presents works by Atlantic Canadian weavers, sculptors, quiltmakers, basketmakers, and storytellers to broaden the discourse on fibre arts. Their practices demonstrate and reinterpret the communicative and social functions of textiles. These artists challenge historical narratives that have confined textile work to domestic labour and industrial production. By experimenting with new materials, they address themes such as climate change, sustainability, preservation of cultural knowledge, archiving of hidden histories, and the reaffirmation of community, gender, ethnic, and racial identities.
Through these works, textiles transcend their materiality to become record of history, a form of resistance, and a language for engaging with the past and envisioning the future.
Artists Include: Darlene Baker, Joanna Close, Frances Dorsey, Oakley Wysote Gray, Hannah Genosko, Margaret Gould Pelletier, Ryan Josey, Charlotte Lindgren, Albert Lohnes, Flora May, Alana Morouney, Sarah Mosher, Meagan Musseau, Anna Torma, Courtney Wagner, Laurence Weyand, Jane Whitten.
Image: Alana Morouney, Knotwork, 2021, Gallery on Queen, Fredericton NB
Curated by: Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa, TD Curatorial Fellow
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