There seems to be a shift from the tactile towards the visual experience. Digitalization speeds up processes. Visual information seems to be faster than tactile information. What will get priority in our experience of the world ? Weaving is a very slow process, even on a computerized loom.There is a tension between making this slow work and the fast world around me. I weave time.
Panels: Timewarp golden, Penelope, Immigrants and Brainscape
On show 1.5. .- 25.5.2025 at NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
‘How to weave a book?’ addresses the mystery of visual memory and it’s taking shape in art. The installation is made with vintage material, re-purposed tools from weaving workshops, images from a personal archive . In collaboration with book designer Gersande Schellinx.
The installation at NDSM Fuse, in the hall of the vintage shipyard.
I weave on a CAD/CAM handloom with paper, horsehair, linnen and monofilament. A slow, manual process; carefully choosing material with specific expressiveness and searching for a form. The hand is the interface, the weaver is the protagonist of our time, especially in the experience of time itself.
