What are the possibilities for the narrative of threads?
The relationship between the terms Text, Textile, and Texture is very interesting and, somehow, poetic. They derive from the Latin 'Texo', which means 'to weave' words and sentences. The sensuality of the intertwining threads passing through the fingertips is like the turning of words in the mouth, the weaving of the story strands in one's brain. The symbolism of the word "woven" connotates intimacy, often used in connection with love and relationships. It is also tempting, guides the visual movement, like the invisible line that intersects the vision of passers-by, the net that connects people in a suffocating way, or the barrier woven for protection.
If there is an invisible line between the crowds, what would it look like if those lines were to appear in physical form?
The thin lines of matter penetrate the real world, presenting the observer with another critical thinking challenge; understanding how the artist connects reality and unreality, presenting the process of establishing a connection between themselves and others.
In A Room of One's Own (1929), Virginia Woolf compares the nature of the entanglement between herself and her surroundings:
'Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners…
When the web is pulled askew…one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.'
Sculpting is a game of addition and subtraction. Painting considers the stacking of blocks and surfaces. The thread, from less to more, from the start to the end, shows the complete path of the creator.
Participating Artists｜
Chang En-Tzu
Chen Sheng-Wen
Chen Sung-Chih
Huang Yu-mei
Lua Rivera Figueroa
I Made Wiguna VALASARA
