Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025
Innovation & Tradition
About the Session‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.
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Mandy Shindler's work explores feminism, identity, gender, power and the role of women in architecture. She emphasizes organic fluid forms over rigid hierarchical structures, challenging tradition architectural norms through tactile and nomadic approaches. Shindler is inspired by historical traditions of women as builders, particularly in nomadic African cultures. Her practices intertwine personal experience, feminist theory, and the history of architecture.
Shindler began her architecture studies in her forties, following a successful business career and raising a family. Her work is experimental, using techniques such as hand-dying, layering, and mark-making, and has been exhibited internationally.
The layers of 100% cotton cloth have been hand-marked, printed and stitched using natural earth pigments and soya milk.
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