Torn and Sutured - 3rd TCN exhibition

We are excited to present the 3rd online exhibition of Textile Culture Net 2023/2024.

Curated by Zoe Yeh, the exhibition Torn and Sutured zooms in on the thread as a medium to examine the healing and resistance qualities of fabrics. It explores different causes of tearing injury, from physical to emotional and cultural, like diaspora and warfare. Through the lens of textiles, the exhibition aims to capture the uniqueness of each tear, its historical significance, and the narrative skills and creative expressions that can stitch up these wounds of separation.

Yeh is the director of the Hong-gah Museum in Taipei and oversees the museum’s modern Chinese embroidery collection. She is also known for her contribution to the local arts scene.

Featured artists: Yma Taru, Anna Torma, Ana Bravo Pérez, Terje Grimen, Güneş Terkol, Sara Rahbar, Jakkai Siributr, Afra Eisma.

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.

Yuma TARU, The Tongue of Cloth (detail), 2021.
Photo courtesy of the artist