PRESS | HONG KONG10 March 2024
Social fabrics: On the rise of textile and woven art
Yee I-Lann, showing with Silverlens, is another artist working collaboratively with communities of weavers. Yee, who will join artists Qualeasha Wood and Yuki Kihara to discuss weaving as an art form as part of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Conversations program, works with weavers from the nomadic Sama-Bajau communities of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei, as well as the inland-based Dusun and Murut weavers of Keninga, to create tikar (woven mats).
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