Throughout summer 2019, textile work of Ms Hella Jongerius (Dutch designer) has been exhibited at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. The exhibition is entitled Interlace, a project on textile and weaving, where the artist makes use of the building’s performing qualities to transform the interior into a vast, constantly shifting loom — a massive textile studio open to the public. Her theoretical and experimental research explores multiple themes addressing the significance of colors and materials.
With this exhibition, Ms Hella addresses the reality that textiles have become a disposable product in the world of fast fashion and questions the relationship between consumers and textiles along with the cultural, social, and economic implications of textile production and consumption today.
Over recent decades, many consumers have become less aware of how our textiles are made, while artisanal production techniques are being lost. Industrialization, mechanization and globalization have taken textile production away from individual understandings.
