Fri 9/3 @ 6-8PM
The new show at Praxis Fiber Arts’ gallery features the work of Champaign, Illinois-based weaver Tali Weinberg.
The solo show is called Water Ways, as Weinberg’s work addresses the climate crisis, water and “the relationships to places we called home.” This group of pieces is part of a large body of work in which Weinberg uses climate data, plant-derived fibers and dyes, and petrochemical-derived medical tubing and fishing line to create abstracted water and landscapes.
According to her artist statement, Weinberg “draws on the embodied and relational qualities of weaving to transform data into a feminist, material archive of climate knowledge, care and attention. In this exhibition she shares work that looks to watersheds for alternative, feminist, anti-colonial understandings of our relationships to place.”
In this body of work she explores the idea of land defined by the bodies of water they drain into — watersheds — rather than arbitrary national boundaries and suggests that thinking of it this was can challenge the patriarchal, colonial mindset.
“As the detritus of our human life on land runs downstream and then circulates back through bodies, what can watersheds reveal about relationships between ecological and human health?” she asks. “Can the ways of water help move us past the destructive extractivism that ultimately makes us sick?”
The show opens on Friday September 3, during Walk All Over Waterloo, with a reception from 6-8pm. It will remain on view through Friday October 29.
praxisfiberworkshop.com/upcoming-exhibitions/
