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Exhibition
Thinking in Textiles
Location: Nieuw Charlois, NL
Photos by Iza van den Baar
Thankyou to Nieuw Charlois
Jenny Konrad, Fenna van Breda, Sarah Roseman, Iza van den Baar, Yoana Buzowa, Maga Berr, Dakota Havard, Johana Molina Yokolina
Curated by Tiiu Meiner
17.01.–14.02.26
Epigraph: “The familiar and the unknown weave a fabric for a life well felt.” — Clarice Lispector
Resulting from an open call amongst the C3 Studios building in Rotterdam, Thinking in Textiles is an exhibition proposing that textiles carry forms of intelligence revealed through touch and sensation, making intangible worlds tangible through material encounter. It brings together eight artists who work with fibre and cloth as sites where memory, identity, meaning and resistance take form. The works converge on a shared idea: textile is a medium for thinking through life, as our inner worlds and the fibres we touch are always entangled.
Jenny Konrad presents a weighted quilt filled with glass beads and memory foam, inviting touch and physical sensation to communicate the experience of autistic shutdown. Fenna van Breda uses her handmade loom to frame the motions of cleaning, revealing the back of her weavings to show that the movements shaping our lives have no single direction or fixed reading, and that one small motion, as in life, shifts the whole, making sensorial memory a process she thinks through by doing.Sarah Roseman translates childhood memory into a hand-tufted carpet where recollection is encountered as texture and scale, while Iza van den Baar sculpts cloth into bread-like textile forms to probe how nostalgia and belonging are materially constructed.
Yoana Buzowa uses embroidery to document forms of productivity that often go unrecognized, shaping inherited cloth into a stitched fort and an audio-visual piece that reflect the labor, time and skill built in private, domestic routines. Maga Berr stages an installation where Underground Railway quilt motifs carry the coded memory of collective liberation, while an embroidered letter invokes the contested origins of a popular wax-print textile company, drawing a parallel between distant textile histories shaped by inequality. Dakota Havard quilts into discarded cardboard, positioning overlooked materials as sites of resistance to disposability. Johana Molina Yokolina explores transformation and death rituals through a soft textile skeleton, proposing death as a moment of material transformation, rather than a finalised conclusion.
Across the works, textile communicates by being practiced and repurposed, as meaning forms through touch, rather than words or explanations.