Pastoral Futures. Wool Migrations

Barcelona (ES) > 24.11.2023 - 14.01.2024

Materfad, in collaboration with Eina Obra, is presenting Pastoral Futures. Wool Migrations, an exhibition dealing with the fraught reality of wool, highlighting the vitality of artists and collectives mobilised around it, underlining its value as a raw material and the research being conducted to find new applications. The exhibition will present works by the renowned Dutch international artist Claudy Jongstra as well as the project Tornen les Esquelles (The Sheep Bells Are Back), backed by Eina Obra and headed by Martina Manyà and Ana Vivero. Among the pieces on display are a monumental original tapestry by Claudy Jongstra entitled “Tangible Transformation”, which commemorates a collaborative stage of eco-activism in Barcelona shared with Tornen les Esquelles. Furthermore, the show examines the potential of wool to shape alternative futures in the context of shepherding and addresses interconnected issues such as the environmental, cultural and economic unsustainability associated with the disappearance of shepherding, extensive ranching and transhumance. The time has come to recover wool as a material, and to strengthen all of its environmental, artistic and ethical implications.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Barcelona Design Museum)
Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38
08018 Barcelona
Spanien

weitere Infos: www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/exhibition/pastoral-futures-wool-migrations