Dallas Contemporary will present "You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry," a group exhibition featuring artists El Anatsui, Candice Lin, Diedrick Brackens, Sanam Khatabi, and more. Curated by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" offers a consideration of tactility and image in 21st-century tapestries, and the strategies by which artists interrogate haptic sense, material tension, and narrative in weaving.
Taking its title from a letter Kafka wrote to his father, in which he imagines his father’s presence woven across a map of the world, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" considers the interstices of human and digital memory, and surface and substrate, and argues for the enduring possibility of image as a materially substantive thing. At once a taxonomical inquiry and volatile categorical collapse, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" strives to emphasize the complex geographies and modes of technological engagement in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context.
Featuring works by 30 artists and designers, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry, between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation.
The exhibition will remain on display through October 12.
Dallas Contemporary will present "You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry," a group exhibition featuring artists El Anatsui, Candice Lin, Diedrick Brackens, Sanam Khatabi, and more. Curated by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" offers a consideration of tactility and image in 21st-century tapestries, and the strategies by which artists interrogate haptic sense, material tension, and narrative in weaving.
Taking its title from a letter Kafka wrote to his father, in which he imagines his father’s presence woven across a map of the world, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" considers the interstices of human and digital memory, and surface and substrate, and argues for the enduring possibility of image as a materially substantive thing. At once a taxonomical inquiry and volatile categorical collapse, "You Stretched Diagonally Across It" strives to emphasize the complex geographies and modes of technological engagement in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context.
Featuring works by 30 artists and designers, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry, between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation.
The exhibition will remain on display through October 12.