MoFA Uncorked: Intertwined

Join us for the next installment of MoFA’s Uncorked series! Focusing on our new exhibition Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art, curators will give a behind-the-scenes tour, and Dr. Tenley Bick, assistant professor of global contemporary art in the Department of Art History, will discuss Jeffrey Gibson and the history of the Venice Biennale. Gibson, whose work “PROTECTS THE LAND” is currently on view at MoFA, will represent the United States in the influential art exhibition in Italy next year.

About the Exhibit:

The history of textile and fiber arts is defined by transmission – the exchange of knowledge, custom, and practice from person to person, culture to culture, and generation to generation. Today, technology has fundamentally shaped the nature of these exchanges, impacting the creation, presentation, and interpretation of artistic traditions in unprecedented ways. Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art calls attention to the dynamism of textile-related practice across various interdisciplinary lenses and media to explore themes of labor and agency that simultaneously highlight and subvert our expectations.

Curated by Keidra Daniels Navaroli and Annie Booth, Intertwined features the work of Tawny Chatmon, Jeffrey Gibson, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Ahree Lee, Kate Nartker, Yvonne Osei, Aaron Rothman, Carrie Sieh, and Shaheer Zazai, with a critical focus on process and materiality.