Weaving the past into the present — Golnesa Rezanezhad

Weaving the past into the present is the result of a research-based artistic practice that took place in northern Iran between 2016 and 2020. It reveals how the female rug- and carpet-weavers imagine their womanhood through the tradition of weaving and express their imagination via rug motifs. The embodied practice of weaving is considered to be a form of being that relates to past. But the findings of this artistic research demonstrate how weaving has been reinvented in contemporary times as an artistic skill for reflecting artisans’ desired aesthetics and perceptions. The exhibition is shaped on the basis of two types of collaboration with local rug-weavers in northern Iran. One part is a collaborative design and weaving with artisans, based on reflecting their own everyday life stories by transforming traditional motifs. In the other part of the collaboration, I was inspired by the initial motifs that I found woven by local artisans in the two villages in northern Iran.

 

Tue     14/06   16h > 20h
Wed    15/06   14h > 19h
Thu     16/06   14h > 19h
Fri       17/06   14h > 19h
Sat      18/06   14h > 20h

BLANCO
Coupure Rechts 308
9000 Gent