Faces & Mazes: Lia Cook | Textile Museum of Canada Collection and Exhibitions
Apr 9, 2010 - Sep 6, 2010
This exhibition features Lia Cook’s most recent series of weavings in which she uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing maze-like patterns. As the faces fragment, a perceptual shift occurs, moving through a place of transition and ambiguity to reveal the physical, tactile nature of the constructed image. Drawing on familiar and childhood sources, Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered and re-woven in oversized scale, to intensify an emotional and/or sensual encounter.
