Bangkok Post on the exhibition "Mnemonikos" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
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The Nation on the exhibition "Mnemonikos" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
Kethsirin Pholdhampalit writes in The Sunday Nation: Some of the world's best known textile designers and artists showcase their works in a new exhibition at Jim Thompson Art Centre
... Continuing until February next year, the exhibition "Mnemonikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textiles", which features 29 international artists from 11 countries, takes viewers down to the molecular level of textiles. Curated by Japanese textile expert Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, the works achieve a perfect integration between traditional crafts and modern chemistry.
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Swiss artist Mascha Mioni was inspired by her experience of living in South Africa to work with recycled material. Her art-to-wear dress "Rooibos Teabag Dress" is made entirely of recycled bags of the South African national tea rooibos (redbush). It's delicate, but absolutely wearable.
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The Thai newspaper Kom Chad Luek on the exhibition "Mnemonikos" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
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The Nation - Video of the opening by Yoshiko I. Wada of the exhibition "mnemonikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textiles" at the Jim Thompson Art Center Museum, Bangkok
Guest curator Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada opens the exhibition and presents some works - in the background Wax by Guo-xiang YUAN, on the left Rooibos Teabag Dress by Mascha Mioni
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Aug 22, 2013 - Feb. 22, 2014 "nemenikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textile Expressions" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Group exhibition together with Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Caroline Bartlett, Kinor Yang, Maire-Hélène Guelton, Yoshiko I. Wada et al.
The color of dried rooibos tea (redbush tea) reflects Africa to me. The often barren soil, the landscape, thousand shades of brown, ocher, beige, yellow .... In nature thousands of years past are conserved – there you have to expose yourself to the roughness, the savageness, the heat, the odors, wind and rain. To experience this environment intuitively leads to the exhibited work.
The dress is made of Rooibos teabags. Rooibos is the national tea of South Africa. A longer stay in South Africa inspired me to use these everyday natural resist dye products.
Each of the over 500 teabags has actually been drunk. I worked by hand and machine using different techniques.
The dress is delicate, but absolutely wearable.
This creation is a symbol of the necessity to use our resources wisely and recycle where we can, thereby protecting our ecosystem as much as possible.