Where textiles are mass-produced, it is predominantly women who do the work. This is the theme explored by Romanian artist Aurora Király, whose solo exhibition is currently on view at the Fondation Fernet-Branca in Saint-Louis.
Király uses the visual and material qualities of sample books from silk ribbon companies as the starting point for her new, large-scale body of work, “Moodboards (Silk Ribbon Archive Books),” 2026. For this project, she drew inspiration from the silk ribbon collection at Museum.BL. This serves as the occasion for a dialogic guided tour with art historians Olga Osadtschy and Yulia Fisch, curators of the exhibition at the Fondation Fernet-Branca, and cultural studies scholar Leonie Häsler (Museum.BL), in which we will trace the historical footsteps of ribbon weavers and engage with contemporary artistic practices.
Cost: Museum admission; no registration required
Király uses the visual and material qualities of sample books from silk ribbon companies as the starting point for her new, large-scale body of work, “Moodboards (Silk Ribbon Archive Books),” 2026. For this project, she drew inspiration from the silk ribbon collection at Museum.BL. This serves as the occasion for a dialogic guided tour with art historians Olga Osadtschy and Yulia Fisch, curators of the exhibition at the Fondation Fernet-Branca, and cultural studies scholar Leonie Häsler (Museum.BL), in which we will trace the historical footsteps of ribbon weavers and engage with contemporary artistic practices.
Cost: Museum admission; no registration required
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