Maximillian Wölfgang Gallery is proud to present Unraveled, an all-women group exhibition that challenges the conventional boundaries of textile art. From rebellious weavings to boundary-breaking fabric installations, Makiko Harris, Imrana Tanveer, Angel Qin, Gala Bell, Rita Parniczky, Laurie Pearsall, and Hanni Huang invite you to question and reimagine the potential of textile as a medium for artistic expression. Textile art has long been overlooked by the fine art world and relegated as “crafts” due to its culturally historical association with traditional women’s work. Unraveled seeks to re-thread that narrative through contemporary works exploring themes of identity dynamics, gender, diaspora, post-colonialism, and post-humanism.
By stretching the limits of the textile medium, this group exhibition invites us to reshape our perceptions of it, and what kinds of stories it can tell. Whether it’s Harris’s fabric chain installation, Qin’s home appliance lingerie, Huang’s video performance, Tanveer’s post-orientalism weavings, Pearsall’s barrister wigs, Bell’s silk paintings, or Parniczky’s ethereal tapestries; each artist’s avant-garde utilization of textiles challenges the medium’s historically perceived DNA.
Curated by Ärika von Edler and Paul Nitsche