FaB @ Milsom Place, Unit 26 upper level Milsom Place, Milsom St & Broad St, BA1 1BZ
25 May open 6-8pm - #FaB18 Opening Night Arty Party
open 10am to 6pm daily - 26 May to 10 June
Biography in Cloth
This exhibition brings together work by 18 artists from near and far examining the idea and materiality of cloth.
Can we find the resonance of a person in cloth?
Can we connect to people and locations through cloth?
Can cloth reverberate with the presence, or absence, of us?
Often we see, or handle, cloth and remember forgotten connections, memories, traumas, even fantasies of who we might like to be.
Cloth is flexible - we are interested in putting together an exhibition which allows the space of cloth, and marks left on cloth, to investigate and refer to human experience.
Curated by Carole Waller and Joanna Wright, for more information contact cloth@fringeartsbath.co.uk
German seamstress Agnes Richter (1844–1918) was a patient at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic during the 1890s. While held at the asylum she would densely embroider her standard issue straitjacket.