PROGRAM / Soft Diagrams

The exhibition brings on display art works by seven Swiss-based contemporary artists whose site-specific installations involve textile materials in a variety of forms to poetically reflect the double significance of the textile industry as cultural heritage, a powerful economic force with substantial environmental impact.

The textile industry is the fabric of a long-term history of transformations of labor and technology, to the current restructuring and technological changes of postindustrial development that has brought new values of culture, nature and ecological demands for a circular economy. From the textile industry to fashion, the notion of labor has evolved from concentrated industrial production to the dispersed factory that has taken hold of everyday life, all the way to labor under the conditions of digitalization, AI, the climate crisis, and new hot zones of continuous war. Textile has long been associated with domesticity, intimacy, and femininity.

The exhibition refers to Paul B. Preciado's horizontal worker who embodies the fundamental biopolitical changes of labor under the pandemic and post pandemic, who erases the distance between workspace and home.

Text: Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Rocco A. de Filippo