The Unseen Self - 1st TCN exhibition

Anna Von Mertens, Marilyn Monroe's Aura (II.31), After Warhol (detail), hand-dyed, hand-stitched cotton, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and R & Company, New York, NY. Photo: Don Tuttle

The first TCN online exhibition for 2023/2024 is out!
Curated by Caroline Kipp, The Unseen Self features contemporary textile artworks about identity and “self,” which extend beyond traditional portraits.
Through unexpected, layered, and mercurial representations, artists question the authenticity of a definable, stable personhood while expanding upon what can be considered a “portrait” in the formal sense.

Featured artists: Bea Bonafini, Célio Braga,  Enoch Cheng,  Eli Eines,  Hou I-Ting,  Aslaug Magdalena Juliussen, Ngozi Schommers, Anna Von Mertens.

Each year Textile Culture Net invites guest curators to join its curatorial team proposing an exhibition theme to which other curators react with an artwork proposition. This dialogue shapes a dynamic exchange of views, methods and perspectives on textile.

TCN’s online exhibitions are published on the institutions’ and guest curators’ Instagram accounts, connected by the hashtag #TextileCultureNet.

TCN’s fourth edition for 2023/2024 is co-funded by the European Union, within the framework of the prestigious Creative Europe program.
Grant Agreement n°101099994.