Department of Textiles at the exhibition in Portugal
The Department of Textiles was invited to the collective international project Dans le Toucher Racines et Ontologie in the Portuguese city of Guimaraes. This event is a accompanying activity of the international presentation of textile art Contextile 2024.
The project consisted of a workshop and an exhibition, and in addition to the AFAD, art academies from Belgium, France and Portugal participated in it.
From September 2 - 7, 2024, 20 students, led by teachers, implemented a joint project, installed in the former hall for the processing of cow hides.
The project was attended by teachers Blanka Cepková and Beáta Gerbocová, together with students of textile creation Viktória Bakušová, Lucia Forišová, Tatiana Poljak and Pavlína Arendášová.
The 7th edition of CONTEXTILE – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, taking place between September and December 2024, in Guimarães, is designed with a focus on the involvement of the biennial with the community(ies) of the territory(ies) where it resides and works. In the same way a fabric is built from the perfect articulation between weft and warp, societies also depend on the way in which people who compose them relate to each other. The 2024 Biennial is committed to creating and working together, reinforcing its commitment to art and culture, but also to the ecosystem and sustainability. In this sense, it underlines what has been one of its most marked lines of identity: a platform of meeting and creation in community.
More information about the biennal on Contextile website