the touch of textile

essay
2024

In what ways are art, textile, and touch interrelated? Why can we suddenly see so much textile art in exhibition spaces? How does this (not) fit in the canonic artistic tradition? What are the added values of using one’s hands to create artworks? And what are the possible pitfalls of a sudden embracing of touch and textile by artists and art insitutions?

Weaving together art history, critical thought, and my own experiences of working with touch and textile, I wrote an article for Locus-Magazine for the Cultural Sciences, for their dossier about sense perception.

Read the full article (language: Dutch).

Screenshots of the Locus website.

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I am a textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. Through my work runs a tangible thread that is spun from questions about materials, hierarchies, traditions, patterns, shapes, and their relations. By means of artistic research, I aim to unravel them and investigate their potential to be interlaced in new ways.

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