Veil Craft is the first in a new series of collaborations in the Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
“Veil Craft is a new exhibition by Materials & Applications that proposes to investigate the cultural resonance of industrial ready-mades seen throughout our city. The exhibition features new work by emerging San Francisco-based architectural studio Figure, whose installation deploys such textiles as artistic material rendered anew by architectural craft. Following our history of production, the installation transforms an underutilized urban courtyard into a temporary pocket park, unfolding thru mid September in the courtyard of Craft Contemporary.”
The site itself transforms into a public venue for a series of summer events that bring together artists and storytellers into dialogue, with renewed focus onto questions of accessibility, labor practices, and community engagement. Ultimately the project aims to activate the public’s interest in the overlooked materiality of our built environment, bringing together expert and non-expert audiences in conversation about Los Angeles’ material culture, thus bridging industry, craft, artistic and architectural audiences together.
THREADS: A Conversation about Textiles in Art and Architecture
Saturday, August 21, 2021 11:00am - 12:30pm Free
On the occasion of Veil Craft, Materials & Applications with Craft Contemporary presents a conversation between practitioners across art and architecture on the topic of textiles and fibers. Veil Craft draws upon the materiality of a city under constant construction, transforming the debris netting that adorns building sites into a meditative pocket park that gestures toward cultures of maintenance, histories of gendered labor, and the presentation of the body. Threads convenes a community formed through practices committed to woven, soft, tactile material to explore connections between and beyond.