Soft Logic — Textile Action, Politics and Pedagogy

How would the story of humanity be told if archaeologists could study perishable materials such as textile or wood, which have decomposed and dissolved over time? Perhaps history would be written very differently. Instead of an iron age or bronze age, we would be speaking of an age of thread or weaving. Perhaps textile, a primaeval technology, is the key to future global problem-solving.

The exhibition Soft Logic lets viewers see how textile, threads and patterns have affected various cultures and social systems. It shows that abstract forms are rooted in ancient traditional patterns and at the same time constantly develop in our time. It also stresses how ceremonial textiles and hereditary craftsmanship may inspire communities in collective and queer contexts.

Soft Logic allows us to shift the perspectives together with a group of artists using textile to further other kinds of logic and ways of seeing things than the customary ones.

The exhibition is curated by Bella Rune and Cecilia Widenheim and is based on Rune’s many years of artistic research on textile as material, language and action. It was first shown at Tensta konsthall and has now come to Lunds konsthall in a new version in dialogue with the architecture of the building.

Curators: Bella Rune and Cecilia Widenheim