COLLECTIVE PATTERNS | Eine textile Formen-Werkstatt

In the organizer's words:

as part of the exhibition Display. Sara Ouhaddou

How can crafts, art and design enter into dialog with each other, give each other impulses and grow together? In Display, the artist and designer Sara Ouhaddou traces the processes of her many years of collaboration with craftspeople in Marrakech. As an extension and activation of the exhibition, the ifa-Galerie Berlin invites you to an open textile workshop for 8 weeks. It offers space to translate your own patterns and form ideas, but also form questions from the exhibition, into your own form alphabet, to experiment with fabrics, application techniques and embroidery and to become part of a collective, textile work of art.

The workshop is open to young and old, families, interested people or textile nerds and can be used freely during the regular opening hours of the ifa Gallery Berlin. No previous knowledge is required!

Threads: Thursday, 19.12.2024, 5-7 pm

Using the fabrics and shapes created in the first workshop, we will now expand our techniques with threads on the surface of the textiles. We will dye natural yarns with winter plants such as spruce or fir and add another design language to the collaborative textile artwork with sewing and embroidery.

Conclusion: Sunday, 26.01.2025, 3-5 p.m.

Can designed textiles be read like a text? At the end of the 8-week workshop, we want to "read" the shapes and patterns left on the fabrics together. Over punch and cookies, we invite you to respond with your own short texts that translate, cross over or expand the display created in the workshop. In the process, small textile notations of the collectively invented stories will emerge, which we want to share with each other.