Crossings

Claudia Alarcón, Olga de Amaral, Hellen Ascoli, Teresa Baker, Vamba Bility, Julia Bland, Vivian Caccuri, Dee Clements, Kenturah Davis, Jacques Douchez, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Sonia Gomes, Suchitra Mattai, Maria Nepomuceno, Norberto Nicola, Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Judith Scott, Tyrrell Tapaha, T. Vinoja, Sarah Zapata

Kasmin is pleased to present Crossings, an exhibition that brings together an international and intergenerational group of artists exploring the enduring resonance of weaving, textiles, and embroidery in contemporary art. The presentation examines a variety of practices that engage the poetics of fabric—its languages, genres, forms, and modes of composition. Exploring the ability of woven material to expand, transform, and complicate artistic disciplines, the exhibition incorporates work by artists whose practices span textile, painting, sculpture, installation, and conceptual art.

Including new works made especially for the exhibition, this cross-section of 21st-century practices probes the expressive possibilities of fiber, fabric, and interwoven material, contextualized by three influential wool and tapestry works from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Exploring the foundational dialectic of warp and weft, the works represent just some of the generative articulations of humanity’s earliest binary language and original information technology. A structural rhythm, imparted by the crossing of threads over and under one another, resounds through the exhibition into a salient agent for spatial, material, and metaphorical complexity. Each artist approaches fabric, whether social, material, or historical, as a repository for encoded meaning, memory, and narrative. Inspired by the etymological connection between “text” and “textile,” the exhibition spotlights singular practices that reconfigure the limits of artistic possibility, borrowing elements of abstraction, critical theory, and autobiography. Each work on view investigates history, mythology, and the psychology of self to imagine new frameworks for telling one’s story.