Loosening Fabric #6 (Entangled)
2017

AIKO TEZUKA

 

EUR 23,000 + VAT

 

Loosening Fabric #6 (Entangled) 2017

 

Unravelled fabric

330 x 210 x 219 cm

 

About this work

 

Tezuka titled this unweaving for its place in the group exhibition ‘Entangled: Threads and Making’ at Turner Contemporary in 2017. That explored how female artists have both used and broken away from the tools and techniques historically associated with ‘women’s work’. Tezuka has referred to her deconstructions as a metonym for how Japanese traditions were displaced by western technology from the nineteenth century onwards: perhaps these falling threads are tears mourning the loss.

AIKO TEZUKA BIOGRAPHY

Many post-modern painters have found ways to deconstruct the canvas: Aiko Tezuka, who studied painting, applies what she learned to textiles – from antique fabrics to fashion brands to her own designs. She fastidiously extracts threads from the fabrics, sometimes re-weaving them to both de-create and re-create the material’s structures and narratives. The appeal, Tezuka has explained, is to investigate ‘what makes up the surface’, ‘what things could I see behind the surface’ and ‘how could I embody these things behind the surface into my work’. Time, she says, could be one of those things, and the unravelling allows her to ‘figuratively reverse time while making the invisible time visible’.

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