Sheila Hicks
in ‘To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection’, El Espacio 23, Miami
2 November 2023 – 3 August 2024
El Espacio 23 presents To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, curated by Tobias Ostrander in close dialogue with curators of the Pérez Collection, Patricia M. Hanna and Anelys Alvarez. The exhibition attempts to uncover contemporary fascination with textile-based works – one that has been historically marginalized to the genre of craft within Western art contexts.
Featuring work from Sheila Hicks and well as over 100 intergenerational artists from around the world, To Weave the Sky is inspired by weaving’s traditional ties to abstraction and geometry, landscape and the organic, tactility and intimacy, and indigenous cosmologies and ritual.