Human textiles

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Finnish artist Raija Jokinen works with textile and fiber materials. With my artworks, I am searching the interface of spirit and materials. Visually my works are based on physical human body and...

If you're aiming to make deeply personal and authentic artwork, perhaps nothing is more individual and expressive than a self-portrait.

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Based in Austria, Natalia Lubieniecka scours Vienna’s markets for antique objects, fabrics, and anatomical posters that eventually inform and meld into her peculiar sculptures. Whether it be a blush-colored heart enveloped in florals, a supine frog with exposed entrails, or a deceased bird covered in a lace bodice, her fantastical works speak to the fragileContinue reading "Florals, Beads, and Lace Embellish Whimsical Faux Taxidermy and Anatomical Sculptures"

Finnish artist Raija Jokinen creates sculptural bodies out of flax which attempt to reveal the complicated relationship between the mind and body. Webs of flowers, veins, and roots cover her textile torsos, shape-shifting between plant and human forms. Jokinen invites the audience to get lost in these visual similarities, as she makes no distinction between whetherContinue reading "Textile Bodies Reveal Branched Systems of Veins, Flowers and Roots by Raija Jokinen"

Brazilian artist Renato Dib creates exquisite adaptations of the human form using velvet, silk, and other materials. The intimacy of the human

Finnish artist Raija Jokinen creates sculptural bodies out of flax which attempt to reveal the complicated relationship between the mind and body. Webs of flowers, veins, and roots cover her textile torsos, shape-shifting between plant and human forms. Jokinen invites the audience to get lost in these visual similarities, as she makes no distinction between whetherContinue reading "Textile Bodies Reveal Branched Systems of Veins, Flowers and Roots by Raija Jokinen"

Artist Juana Gómez turns her gaze inward in order to understand the larger systems that compose the outside world. She embroiders the bones, muscles, veins, and synapsis that lie below her skin onto self-portraits, tracing her biological structures as a way to translate the similar patterns found in nature and modern civilization. “There is fundamentalContinue reading "Self Portraits Embroidered With Images of Blood Vessels, Bones, and Muscle Tissue by Juana Gómez"

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