Textiles, largely ignored at Western contemporary art showcases, take centre stage at London's Frieze art fair
A woman takes a picture of an artwork titled 'L.A. Liberty' by Pacita Abad at the Frieze Art Fair in London on October 2, 2019.
It features eight solo artists of different generations from a host of countries, including Brazil, the Philippines, China, India and Madagascar, who tackle perhaps surprisingly topical themes. For Cosmin, it was a chance to celebrate textile arts while weaving issues like Britain's "unsolved colonial legacy", with other contemporary matters such as sexism and ethnocentrism.
Abad's "Trapunto" canvases, festooned with sequins, shells and swatches of precious textiles, among other things, take on a three-dimensional quality. Chitra Ganesh, a 44-year-old Indian-American visual artist, noted "a larger conceptual approach to bringing together disparate iconographies, histories, looking for a way to connect the very old and the very new."
The artists was also eager to show that sewing could be modern and "a form of protest" as well as a traditional craft.
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