Traditional media often speak toward a poetry of the past. Of the hands of the grandmother. Of the voice of the ancestor. However, in the early 21st century the medium of textiles has come to absorb the affect of the digital age: embedding within their loops and frays at once our nostalgia for a deep material physication, so oft denied in an age of the alienation of social media, and our …
Traditional media often speak toward a poetry of the past. Of the hands of the grandmother. Of the voice of the ancestor. However, in the early 21st century the medium of textiles has come to absorb the affect of the digital age: embedding within their loops and frays at once our nostalgia for a deep material physication, so oft denied in an age of the alienation of social media, and our yearning for better, brighter, more just tomorrow built upon the promise of technological progress.
The textile works presented in our Louder Now show are based on the artists' experimentation with …
