Textus
Embroidery, Textile, Feminism
ed. by Oksana Briukhovestka

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Editor(s)

Oksana Briukhovestka

Publication

Kyiv : Visual Culture Research Center, 2017

Scope

126 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

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Textiles and embroidery, traditionally dominated by women, have long been perceived as inferior to other art forms due to the privileging of masculine spaces. To challenge this perception, Ukrainian female artists are holding an exhibition at the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 8 March to 9 April, 2017. The words “textile” and “text,” coming from the Latin word textus, means “fabric,” “connection,” and “interwoven.” Our culture evolved in such a way that it was mostly men who interwove words to create texts, as words and language became carriers of power and law. The interweaving of threads was reduced to “women’s” work, an unexceptional craft compared with the intellectual “weaving of words.” To counter this opinion “female” techniques became important representations of feminist art.

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Keywords

feminism , textile , text

Geographical location

Ukraine

Location

Cabinet 30 - 6: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte

Remarks

Incl. Biographies