Judith Raum at Entanglements: On the role of textiles in art and society (12/04/2025)
Judith Raum is taking part in Entanglements, a group exhibition organized by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), curated by Susanne Weiß and Inka Gressel. The exhibition will be on view from April 12 to August 3, 2025, at Kunstbahnhof Flöha, Germany.
Entanglements brings together contemporary artists whose practices engage with textile-based materials and processes. The exhibition explores how weaving, stitching, dyeing, and fabric-making are deeply intertwined with histories of migration, colonization, resistance, and identity. The artists use textile as both material and metaphor to examine the political and social entanglements embedded in these craft traditions.
Textiles are often considered intimate and domestic, yet they are also tied to global histories of trade, labor, and exploitation. In Entanglements, the artists question these dualities—softness and strength, tradition and innovation, local and global—inviting viewers to reflect on how threads of the past continue to weave through our present.
Image: Judith Raum, machine subjectivity, 2012 (excerpt from the video), one-channel video projection, 15', color, sound