TALK + DISCUSSION // CONFLICT TEXTILES WITH ROBERTA BACIC
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TALK + DISCUSSION // CONFLICT TEXTILES WITH ROBERTA BACIC
Sunday 3rd February // 2-3.30pm
The Gallery of Everything
4 Chiltern Street
London W1 [ MAP ]
OF A LIFE/TIME is a discourse on memory and identity by two unusual makers whose practices centre around notions of thread. Now on show at The Gallery of Everything, a Central London space dedicated to art-makers working beyond the cultural mainstream, OF A LIFE/TIME showcases the embroidered autobiography of Belarusian artist and storyteller OLGA FRANTSKEVICH, alongside the figurative diagrams of sewing machines by Beninese draughtsman EZEKIEL MESSOU.
OF A LIFE/TIME coincides with the resurgent interest in textiles as a contemporary format for narrative expression and protest. On Sunday 3rd February, The Gallery of Everything will welcome Chilean curator and human rights activist, ROBERTA BACIC, for an illustrated talk on the history of the medium. The testimonial image-making of OLGA FRANTSKEVICH will be examined within the wider context of fibre art by international women artists.
OF A LIFE/TIME
The Gallery of Everything presents OF A LIFE/TIME, the first international exhibition of contemporary tapestries by Belarusian artist and storyteller, OLGA FRANTSKEVICH.
Exhibiting for the first time outside the eastern bloc, FRANTSKEVICH authors hand-woven episodes which recall a childhood of conflict through reminiscence and dream. A sense of urgency pervades the self-propelled practice. Today, as she enters her ninth decade, FRANTSKEVICH reclaims an intensely personal history for the collective memory - not with the pen, but with the needle.
In dialogue with this tactile materiality are the diagram/drawings from the everyday discipline of EZEKIEL MESSOU. From his atelier in Benin, MESSOU has evolved an encyclopaedic inventory of repair. Portraits of sewing machines, draughted with ballpoint and lead, form this informal opus of difference and repetition – identity-stamped with pride, and for all to see.
For more information about the project, please click here.
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