About

Elijah Wheat Showroom is gleeful to present the textile work of Hope Wang at the Future Fair, May 3-7, 2022. Hope Wang uses hand-weaving, screen-printing, painting, and photography to reproduce architectural “scars” and patterns from common construction materials. Contending with sloppy traces of human activity around sites of industrial labour, her work references building facades that have been eroded, redacted, or defaced. Her weavings consider the ways architectural spaces become artifacts of memory, and thus, how spaces themselves become palimpsests of meaning. She likes to playfully …