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exhibitions The exhibition contains a 'forest' of NUNO textiles – thirty two hanging columns each 5.5m x 2.8m, representing a textural journey through 21 years of Reiko Sudo’s association with NUNO. There are also two textile 'walls', one a tensile, transparent structure 8m x 3m, the other a 'touch' wall throughout the exhibition of textiles to be handled. A series of videos is placed within the exhibition, containing interviews with members of the public in which they talk about their personal relationship with cloth. The NUNO video 'Nuno - the unreal skin' is also shown across three large screens. exhibition update WHAT IS CLOTH TO ME? Director: Lutz Becker The film by Lutz Becker 'What is cloth to me?' is based on a series of interviews and conversations with people from all walks of life in which they describe the importance of textile in their lives and work. To extend the context for Reiko Sudo's extraordinarily beautiful, innovative textiles, to engage audiences directly with our current understanding of cloth, place and time alongside the visual experience of the textiles in front of them, Lesley Millar approached the documentary filmmaker Lutz Becker to engage a number of people, lay men/women and professionals in filmed conversations starting with the question: What is cloth to you?. The resulting film will be shown within the exhibition '21:21 – the textile vision of Reiko Sudo and NUNO'. Stimulated by the exhibition and interaction with the film, audiences will find their own answers and will be helped to arrive at their own more informed point of view. Textiles form the fabric of our lives, from cradle to grave, mediating our earliest experiences and allowing us access to distant cultural roots and long forgotten personal memories. Yet its material familiarity causes it to 'disappear' into the integrated texture of our daily existence. The film discussion 'What is cloth to me?' which has emerged from over forty interviews demonstrates the wide range of associations, use and importance of textile within our lives. Initial astonishment in this discovery gives way to personal insight into old and new cultural traces contained within and projected upon cloth. The sound, the texture, the drape, clothing itself, - all provoke a highly personal engagement. Family, cultural and historical connections are made through textiles. The relationships of cloth and the body, cloth and architecture, cloth and art – all weave in and out of the discussion. This is a discussion that has no end, Ariadne's thread unravels and is rewoven – each of us has our own narrative. |
July 17th August 27th 2006
Tel: 0043/7289/72300 Exhibition opens: Sunday 16.7 - 20:00 opening times: 17.7. - 28.7. (during symposium) opening times: 29.7 - 27.8
Forthcoming venues 18th January -18th March 2007 Previous venues October 17th – December 15th 2005 10th February – 2nd April 2006 Tel: +44 (0) 1529 308710 |
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