Wet felting consists in rubbing and compacting wool fibres, previously wetted with hot water and soap, in order to create one dense, thick, resistant and almost tear-proof material.
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Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust (in collaboration with Célia Boulesteix, Moving Landscape, felting, wool fibers, 6 x 4 m, 2019. Photo by Rachele Salvioli.
Conceived by Darius-Robin Dolatyari-Dolatdoust in collaboration with Célia Boulesteix, Moving Landscape is a project that crosses diverse disciplines, such as sculpture, textile-painting, installation, choreography and performance. Inspired by Greek Mythology, it aims at creating a sculptural and moving landscape, where bodies, costumes and movement blur together in a landscape made out of felting. The big felt frames a landscape, a physical and temporal space where dancers can perform and move. Its graphic imagery is inspired by the rest of the antiquities found in the city of Athens. Reproducing this imagery as a pattern on the felt is a way to re-connect with a common past and cultural heritage.
