Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles

Library Street Collective is pleased to present Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles, a group exhibition curated by Allison Glenn, Artistic Director of the Shepherd. Warp and Weft considers how artists experiment with new technologies, interrogate materials, and embed innovative, inherited, familial, or ancestral epistemologies into their practices, to foreground narrative and allegory. From the invention of and subsequent improvements to the Jacquard loom, to the reframing of traditional weaving styles, and the incorporation of computers and other forms of mechanization, there is a long history of technologies located within, and born of, deep engagements with textiles. Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles brings together a wide spectrum of styles, histories, and approaches. Many artists in Warp and Weft have primarily textile-based practices, while others incorporate textiles and fabrics into largely experimental bodies of work. This range speaks to the materials’ expansiveness.

Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles presents artists with practices that are rooted in the haptic, presenting a wide range of approaches. Please join us at the opening reception on Saturday, January 25, 2025, for a dialogue between Submerge artists Cornelius Harris and John Collins, who will discuss histories of techno and house music as they relate textiles to sound and the legacies of Underground Resistance (UR), a music collective from Detroit, Michigan, followed by reception with the artists.

Warp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles will be on view from January 25 - May 3, 2025 at the Shepherd.