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Although textile may seem like a ‘gentle’ medium traditionally associated with domestic crafts, it has enormous critical and subversive potential, especially when used consciously to comment on social, political or historical issues.
Women's work, identified with the sphere of home, care and nurturing, is symbolically associated with crafts, most often needlework, quilting and weaving. In this context, we find both historical examples of subversive stitches, a collection of Chilean apilleras from Conflict Textiles, and the works of contemporary artists. The themes of human rights, ecology, social equality and feminism will be the basic topics for discussion on the strategy of creating socially engaged artistic textiles.
Oksana Briukhovetska is an artist, curator, art writer, graphic designer, and activist. She g ...