Why have artists been drawn to textiles to challenge power structures, transgress boundaries and reimagine the world around them?

Accompanying Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, this illustrated catalogue shines a light on 50 contemporary artists who - drawn to the tactile processes of stitching, weaving, braiding, beading and knotting - have explored the transformative and subversive potential of fibre and thread. Spanning intimate hand-crafted pieces to large-scale sculptural installations, the featured artworks are radical in their form and politics, speaking to stories of marginalisation and exclusion, as well as emancipatory joy and transcendence.

Co-published with Prestel, featuring original essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Miguel A. López and Denise Ferriera da Silva, and texts by Michelle Adler, Diego Chocano, Wells Fray-Smith, Simone de Haan, Lotte Johnson and Amanda Pinatih. Designed by Atelier Dyakova. 

ISBN: 978-3-7913-7728-5

Hardcover: 320 pages