sensitive content, 2024

selected - 23rd International Mini Textile Exhibition Bratislava slovakia

TXT MINI TEXTILE AWARD

When art is restricted, it prevents the viewer from fully relating to or experiencing its message, thereby defeating its purpose.

There seems to be a growing agreement, even in free societies, that censorship can be justified when certain interest groups, or genders, or faiths declare themselves affronted by a piece of work. But great art - or let’s just say, more modestly, original art - is never created in the safe middle ground but always at the edge. Originality is dangerous.

And if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the kind of art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Salman Rushdie, 2012

In-situ in Bratislava.

Image courtesy of Umelka Gallery.

Measurement: 15cm x 14cm x 1cm

Process: Hand stitch

Materials: Cotton, silk thread, phone cover

Exhibited in:

Flash, 23rd International Mini Textile Exhibition, Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (23 November - 15 December 2024)

comments

  • Such a great concept and execution

  • Very good, very, very good - and doesn’t it hit the mark

  • Damn. You’re good…

  • Fabulous

  • I always think, when places refuse to place art without ‘trigger warnings’, what those warnings should say are ‘beware something in this artwork might make you think’

  • So true

  • Just fantastic. Censorship is repression

  • Superb

  • A really powerful piece of work