Cat Ashley Fairchild Perloff presents (online via Zoom) the research behind her micro exhibition at the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center. Featuring a fragment from the Paracas-Necropolis tradition of the ancient Andes (c. 100 BCE) and another from the Miao minority culture of China (20th century), the display examines how both textile traditions convey energy and movement.
Perloff also explores how, across continents and centuries, embroidered motifs have functioned as a form of “writing with thread," preserving ritual knowledge, social relationships and historical memory in a visual language legible within their communities.

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