In Between Points, Things Happen
2-person show with Ria Bosman
Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
01.09.2024 - 24.10.2024
Photos by Joost Joossen
Press Release:
Weaving is as ancient as huts, as the early days of gathering and hunting. It is connected to nature yet more recently also to industry, and in this process, technological acceleration turned into computer coding. This might have been an unexpected but natural consequence of pattern programming that was developed during the industrialization of weaving in the early 1800s. Weaving then, and its consequences, are ancient and futuristic, strongly embedded in Indigenous traditions from the Global South as holders of cultural identity, as well as in the post-industrial and consumer societies of the “Global West”, where digital surveillance serves marketing, policing, and military purposes.
‘In Between Points, Things Happen’ is an exhibition of different directions and intensities of weaving. From elegantly simple deconstructed and woven canvases that point simultaneously to the traditions of weaving and hard-edge painting, to fruits and vegetables covered with kitted covers that contain and protect multiple and kaleidoscopic narratives of growth and decay. Colour is vital to both artists and it is everywhere in the exhibition, functioning as a catalyst of playfulness and an indicator of different moods, sometimes festive sometimes melancholic.
The futuristic and almost sci-fi scenarios also make an appearance in the shiny and fierce sculptures and flat weaves made with material as precarious and probably outdated in Europe such as gift ribbon tape. Local history is also present as Ghent is the city of birth of the Belgium Industrial Revolution thanks to the role of the cotton industry.
‘In Between Points, Things Happen’ unites and proposes a new reading of two artists from different generations, geographies, and life experiences. It is an invitation for them to enjoy the process and for the public to enjoy the outcome of this (hopefully first) dialogue.
Felipe Mujica
2-person show with Ria Bosman
Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
01.09.2024 - 24.10.2024
Photos by Joost Joossen
Press Release:
Weaving is as ancient as huts, as the early days of gathering and hunting. It is connected to nature yet more recently also to industry, and in this process, technological acceleration turned into computer coding. This might have been an unexpected but natural consequence of pattern programming that was developed during the industrialization of weaving in the early 1800s. Weaving then, and its consequences, are ancient and futuristic, strongly embedded in Indigenous traditions from the Global South as holders of cultural identity, as well as in the post-industrial and consumer societies of the “Global West”, where digital surveillance serves marketing, policing, and military purposes.
‘In Between Points, Things Happen’ is an exhibition of different directions and intensities of weaving. From elegantly simple deconstructed and woven canvases that point simultaneously to the traditions of weaving and hard-edge painting, to fruits and vegetables covered with kitted covers that contain and protect multiple and kaleidoscopic narratives of growth and decay. Colour is vital to both artists and it is everywhere in the exhibition, functioning as a catalyst of playfulness and an indicator of different moods, sometimes festive sometimes melancholic.
The futuristic and almost sci-fi scenarios also make an appearance in the shiny and fierce sculptures and flat weaves made with material as precarious and probably outdated in Europe such as gift ribbon tape. Local history is also present as Ghent is the city of birth of the Belgium Industrial Revolution thanks to the role of the cotton industry.
‘In Between Points, Things Happen’ unites and proposes a new reading of two artists from different generations, geographies, and life experiences. It is an invitation for them to enjoy the process and for the public to enjoy the outcome of this (hopefully first) dialogue.
Felipe Mujica