Displaying the Display

The series of soft sculptures and objects made on industrial jacquard weaving looms in Appenzell questions the textile status quo. How to embody soft space? How to act textile?

The act of displaying highlights something, gives importance. We then maybe focus, get closer, touch. Whereas K.L.H. Wells describes the textile ambivalence: 'To display a textile generally makes it functional, but a textile on display also commonly conceals something behind or beneath it.'¹

Half of the process displayed took place digitally. Through active gestures² of unfolding, shaping and inhabiting one can create visibility, but at the same time communicate³ and create new (textile) connections in both worlds, virtual and real.

¹ Wells, K.L.H. Display. In: Textile Terms: A Glossary. Edition Imorde, Hrsg. Anika Reineke, Anne Röhl,
Mateusz Kapustka und Tristan Weddigen. 2017. p.77.
² Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology. Duke University Press, Durham & London. 2006. p.11.

³ Bibliographica Textilia Historiæ. Towards a General Bibliography on the History of Textiles Based on the
Library and Archives of the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (New York: International General, 1997), p.9.

Photos: Alexander Schlosser

Monofil Fold – rosé green

the object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS,
Woven in Switzerland
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Monofil Fold – ice blue

the object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, paper raphia.
Woven in Switzerland
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Monofil Fold – blue lilac

the object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, Elirex.
Woven in Switzerland
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Monofil Fold – moss green

the object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, Elirex.
Woven in Switzerland
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Monofil Fold – wall

the soft wall object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

300 × 300 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, Elirex.
Woven in Switzerland
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Monofil Fold – lilac yellow green

the object has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.

200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, Elirex.
Woven in Switzerland
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