Off The Cloth, Part II

Curated by Karen Cordero R and Yohanna M. Roa  

Jan 9 – Feb 11, 2023

Recent artistic work and multidisciplinary reflections, often in the light of gender studies, have spawned diverse initiatives that highlight and revalue the role of textiles, knitting, and embroidery in creative processes and the ways in which these media contribute distinctive creative methodologies and modes of signification. Their time-based and corporeal qualities establish connections with historical and cultural antecedents and produce transformations in the realms of affect and meaning that suggest innovative models of social coexistence and interaction, frequently breaking with conventional horizons of expectation regarding the hierarchical relationship between art and craft; the uses and/or combinations of artistic media; habitual markers for gender, class and ethnicity; and models of political art.

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