Unravel review – a gorgeously excessive tangled knot of a show, full of blood, pain and pleasure
Adrian Searle, The Guardian
February 2024
Hybrid, heterodox, filled with strangeness and anger and beauty and horror, Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican is often gorgeously excessive, at other moments quiet and private, not giving up its secrets until you linger. It is also filled with stories and materiality, tenderness and violence. This great tangled knot of an exhibition twines the delicate and the intemperate, the flamboyant and funereal, the ancestral and the everyday. […]