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"Art_Textiles" – Risham Syed at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

Risham Syed
Art_Textiles
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
10 October, 2015 – 31 January, 2016

The status of textiles as an art medium is highly ambivalent. Traditionally, they have been situated on the margins, in a borderland between art and craft.
Since the 1960s, a growing body of contemporary art demonstrates a new engagement with the materials and techniques of crafts, particularly textiles, raising questions about the value of the handmade in the digital age. This show will include artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Ghada Amer and Kimsooja who use textiles as a powerful tool for expressing ideas about the social, political and artistic.
Art_Textiles – Risham Syed at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester