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TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA, CANADA, 2023

This work is created as part of Gathering, the inaugural installation of our new Collection Gallery, featuring community stories told through our global collection. Grounded in community participation, the installation presents over 40 pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 objects from around the world. Choices of objects, responses, and retellings were gathered via open online calls for reflection, through partnerships with local organizations, and through artists’ interventions. Gathering explores themes related to migration and diaspora, the search for comfort in the domestic and familial, reclamation of ancestral traditions through contemporary artistic responses, and the relationship between textiles and the environment.

From the Textile Museum of Canada blog: “The digital work you see above is an artistic response by Katy Biele to a yarn painting by artist Francisco Carillo from Nayarit, Mexico. Something to Hang on to is in the form of a video (6m 3s) and an embroidered textile work. Through this response, Biele highlights three main subjects that she personally tries to pay homage to on a daily basis— the Cosmos or the non-material world, her ancestors, in particular the women in her family tree, and Mother Earth. These are the things that Biele ‘hang on to’ for strength and guidance when she practices her own rituals such as meditation”.

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