Description
 
’The Garden of Loss and Triumph’
 
Before it finds its way into personal possession, linen’s value emerges from being laborious to manufacture, a process, which makes its natural fibres forever strong and absorbent. Following this birth, it’s ongoing presence is linked to the home: reminiscent of a mother’s linen cupboard, a grandmother’s linen chest, time and time again, lining the family’s beds, bathrooms, tables and windows. 
 
Passed down through generations, the durable material traverses and embodies the memory of familial experience and emotion. Grief, trauma, loss, but also resilience, regrowth and triumph are profoundly personal, whilst communal in the universality of human experience. 

(Words by Tahney Fosdike)
 
Details:
 
Exhibition Title: The Garden of Loss and Triumph
Presented by Art Aviso

Exhibition:
 
Venues:
Amsterdam – NDSM Fuse – 1-18 September 2022

NDSM Fuse
NDSM-plein 29
1033 WC Amsterdam
info@ndsm-fuse.eu

Opening hours: Thursday through Sunday 12pm until 6pm 

Art Aviso Artist subscribers were provided with an A4-sized piece of linen/cotton fabric reclaimed from vintage tablecloths and remnants. The linen was to be used as the foundation for an artwork that is an expression of the challenges, loss and grief we currently face in our everyday lives and also the triumphs, large and small that we create and experience along the way. The artwork was to be completed in such a way that it could be joined to another piece of fabric for installation and potentially hung from a height. Completed artworks have been joined together to create an installation artwork – A communal expression of the current state of the world in which we live.