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1x1 Dubai is pleased to present ‘The Traps We Weave” a project by Shivani Aggarwal.

Weaving traps
‘I kept weaving….
To hide
I kept weaving….
To drown
I kept weaving….
Till it trapped me
I kept weaving….
Until I could not weave anymore’

The act of weaving is both transcendental as one looses oneself to create something almost organically and a metaphor to understand the world itself.
How the interwoven threads form a pattern, which changes their very form making the threads become a fabric.

The works in this project are derived from the idea of confinement and traps that social beings tend to weave …