We are very busy here at Iniva at the moment installing our next exhibition Social Fabric which opens on 19 January. In this exhibition textiles are used to explore colonial history, international trade, labour and militant politics. The show concentrates in particular on the relationship between Britain and India.
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- Celine Condorelli designs and creates a curtain for the Social Fabric exhibition, it will be on display in PS1
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- Alice Creischer installs her work in PS1. Here they are putting up some vinyl in the window of Rivington Place
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- Putting up the Vinyl artwork
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- A team are working to put together Alice Creischer’s complex and large installation for PS1 at Rivington Place
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- Some of the element of Alice Creischer’s installation: Apparatus for the Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth during the Contemplation of Poverty
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- Upstairs in PS2 the exhibitions team install archival materials on a specially made structure designed by Celine Condorelli
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- Table unit support structure designed by Celine Condorelli for archive materials in PS1
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- Installing archive materials for ‘Social Fabric’ in PS2 – this display relates to the mills and textile industry in Mumbai
Social Fabric cross references different accounts of textile history, focusing on works by two contemporary artists Sudhir Patwardhan and Alice Creischer, presented alongside extensive range of recent and historical archival material including paintings, Indian Chintz fabrics, original journals from Marx, films, photographs, newspaper articles, recordings of mill workers’ testimonies and work by other artists as well.
There’s a lot of material in the exhibition, meaning there is a huge amount to install. We’ve even commissioned artist Celine Condorelli to design a curtain and two support structures, a table and wall unit, to display all the archival materials.
Find out more about the Social Fabric exhibition. 19 January – 10 March 2012.