We heard about Dutch artist Claudy Jongstra’s Woven Skins a couple weeks ago, and based on the one or two images we saw on Greenpoint design space A/D/O’s website, we had to check it out.
One of the purposes of Woven Skin is to promote community– the “promoting [of] social inclusivity and dissolving [of] hierarchical boundaries through communal workshops, personal contact, and open dialogue.” (Source: Jongstra’s website)
For this author, the hues of the piece spoke to the theme of community. When you walk in, the redness of the piece is shocking against the gray, industrial, converted-warehouse-Brooklyn workspace that is the venue. The colors spoke of blood; indeed, we all bleed the same blood, no matter what! Our skins might be different colors, our lives may have different experiences and mold and shape us, and we are all multi-textured – just like the fabric. But we are woven together in our humanity.
Jongstra also hopes to invoke “ecology” through her piece, and a close-up look at the fabrics will show a definite variety, a riffing off the color palette of red and black, like the colors of soil.
Woven Skins is now on display at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture through September 30, as an official part of Climate Week.
Read more about Climate Week NYC 2018 and other awesome events!