New Delhi: Sumeet Nath, Managing Partner of
Raj Group, hosted the opening preview of Fibre Fables, a collaborative show
between eleven artists and weavers of Panipat which was held at The Stainless
Gallery in New Delhi on Saturday evening. The artworks in this exhibition have emerged from a year-long
interaction between the artists and factory weavers with an idea to put the
spotlight back on our weaving traditions that are slowly facing extinction in
the face of competition from machine-made products.
Curated by Shailin Smith, all the artworks in
the exhibition have been created using the techniques involved in weaving
industry – tufting, braiding, kilim and pitloom weaving to name a few. Through
this creative process, each artist has gained an insight into many new
techniques that they hope to use in future as well, while the weavers have
begun to look at their daily mechanical chores with a new, respectful gaze, as
something that can be used to create a piece of art.
Those who attended the opening included Sumeet
Nath (industrialist) with wife Mandira, Shailin Smith (curator), Susham Bahl
(curator), Alka Raghuvanshi (artist and art critic), Matisha Sahni (architect),
Mona Kapoor (fashion designer), Manisha Gawade (artist), Kanchan Chander
(artist), Anoop Kamath (curator and artist), Ritu Kamath (artist), Abeer Gupta
(artist), Dhvani Behl (artist), Durga Kainthola (artist), Nikheel Apahle
(artist), Puneet Kaushik (artist), Sahaya Sharma (artist), Sandeep Biswas
(artist), Shivani Aggarwal (artist), Vibhu Galhotra (artist), Achal Kumar (photographer)
among others.
