‘Seamless Tissue Might Fray’

A group exhibition curated by Simone Iris de Haan

With:

Gegee Ayurzana, Tereza Sýkorová, Nadie Borggreve, Bregje Sliepenbeek, Anthony Ngoya and Neil Fortune

Seamless Tissue Might Fray opens on March 14, 17:00 at Gallery van Fanny Freytag and is on view until April 26.

Seamless Tissue Might Fray is a group exhibition that explores the ways in which contemporary artistic practices call upon the potency of textiles in pulling closer our memories faded by time, as well as historic realms of making. Serving as portals, textiles enable access to past practices and systems of knowledge, leading us to lived experiences and generational stories. Situated around the phenomenon of textiles as triggers of our previous perceptions, this group exhibition brings together artists who, through their practices, reactivate the material remnants of realities we’re close to losing grasp of. Carrying the textile tool into future spheres, these textile practices call upon our engagement with the ambiguous and the incommensurable, while their transience and fragility confronts us with finitude. Seamless Tissue Might Fray explores whether it might be this fragility of textiles that reconnects us with a state of vulnerability, and how we leave certain memories to perish when we cease continuations and reintegrations of matter and practice.

Nadie Borggreve and Bregje Sliepenbeek, Gates of Ancient Gardens, 2022. Dyed wool, latex, backing, and tin, approx. 45 x 30 cm, dimensions variable. Available separately, for inquiries click here