Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression Once seen as a creative backwater thanks to its association with craft and domestic labour, textile or fibre art has emerged as the medium of our moment. The octogenarian Sheila Hicks's vast, amorphous, rainbow-hued experiments with fibre filled Paris's Pompidou Centre in 2018, while the late Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz's huge, witchy,...
Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression Once seen as a creative backwater thanks to its association with craft and domestic labour, textile or fibre art has emerged as the medium of our moment. The octogenarian Sheila Hicks's vast, amorphous, rainbow-hued experiments with fibre filled Paris's Pompidou Centre in 2018, while the late Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz's huge, witchy,...
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