Signe Emdal

Signe Emdal. Palladio (115,5 x 50,5 x 4 cm. Unique piece)

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Previously shown at Basel 2022.

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Description/

The tapestry-like textile wall sculpture ‘Palladio’ (2021-21) is handcrafted using mohair threads on a cotton warp base on a tapestry loom. Signe Emdal used her signature LOOP fusion technique, based on a manual translation of the electric tufting machine. In this process, ongoing rows of loops with six thin mohair threads are woven together with wool in a classic rug construction. ‘Palladio’ was created for the 2022 Homo Faber exhibition “Crafting a More Human Future” in Venice. The thin yarns are finely woven to create subtle color gradients, inspired by the lace-like octagonal pattern of the terrace of the Basilica of San Giorgio, on San Giorgio Maggiore island, Venice.

Color: Several colours.

Materials: Mohair thread, wool, cotton, ash wood.

Signe Emdal

designer

"Danish artist, Signe Emdal, characterizes herself as a textile composer, transforming emotions and ambiances into tangible constructions in textile, in an attempt to make a smoother way to collaborate in today’s hectic world. Her unique works transcend their materiality in reference to historic objects, spaces landscape and cultural textile heritage. Her process is both a mar riage of traditional cultures and new innovative textile structures that she develops herself. The nomadic journey of textile culture and women’s craft that emerges from different cultures and landscapes and migrates over centuries from country to country is characteristic of Emdal’s practice each new work invites a new technique, which takes its departure from the previous one. The individual processes that she creates are called “Fusion Techniques”.