Textiles after Technology
Kunsthaus Erfurt
Michaelisstr. 34
99084 Erfurt
4 September – 23 October 2020
Opening Friday 4 September 8pm
Ry David Bradley // Elisa Breyer // Leah Emery // Sandra Kosorotova // Katrin Steiger // Paul Yore // Dardan Zhegrova
Curated by Sarah Crowe and David Ashley Kerr
Forthcoming text by Donna Schons
This exhibition of international artists presents textile works that engage with hyperconsumerism, internet culture and the post-digital, and superseded technologies that have gained new resonance in our immaterial digital ether. With a focus on touch and texture, Soft_Ware counters what the digital realm has widely forfeited. These seven millennial artists explore how and why the very medium that spawned the digital’s historical advent, textiles, so aptly serves as the post-digital medium and message to unpick it. This exhibition is not the first to note that textiles have exploded in contemporary art. What it does ask is why textiles are the current medium of choice for artists to dissect the digital age.
Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, Germany, the Cultural Directorate of the City of Erfurt, and the Thuringian State Chancellery.