HIM logo
Nieuw Charlois

C3 Studios, Huismanstraat 30, 3082HK
Thu - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 or by appointment

Website

29 Nov–20 Dec
‘Segments’ – Jelmer Noordeman, solo exhibitions, paintings
17 Jan–14 Feb
‘Thinking in Textile’ – group artists from C3 Studios Rotterdam: Johana Molina, Iza van den Baar, Dakota Havard, Sarah Roseman, Yoana Buzova, Jenny Konrad, Fenna van Breda, Maga Berr. Curated by Tiiu Meiner.
Thinking in Textiles is an exhibition proposing that textiles carry forms of intelligence revealed through touch and sensation, making intangible worlds tangible through material encounter. It brings together eight artists who work with fibre and cloth, sites where memory, identity, meaning, and resistance take form. The works converge on a shared idea: textile is a medium for thinking through life, as our inner worlds and the fibres we touch are always entangled.

Jenny Konrad presents a weighted quilt filled with glass beads and memory foam, inviting touch and physical sensation to communicate the experience of autistic shutdown. Fenna van Breda uses her handmade loom to frame the motions of cleaning, revealing the back of her weavings to show that the movements shaping our lives have no single direction or fixed reading, and that one small motion, as in life, shifts the whole, making sensorial memory a process she thinks through by doing. Sarah Roseman translates childhood memory into a hand-tufted carpet where recollection is encountered as texture and scale. At the same time, Iza van den Baar sculpts cloth into bread-like textile forms to probe how nostalgia and belonging are materially constructed.

Yoana Buzova uses embroidery to document forms of productivity that often go unrecognised, shaping inherited cloth into a stitched fort and an audio-visual piece that reflects the labour, time and skill built in private, domestic routines. Maga Berr stages an installation where Underground Railway quilt motifs carry the coded memory of collective liberation. At the same time, an embroidered letter invokes the contested origins of a popular wax-print textile company, drawing a parallel between distant textile histories shaped by inequality. Dakota Havard quilts into discarded cardboard, positioning overlooked materials as sites of resistance to disposability. Johana Molina/Yokolina explores transformation and death rituals through a soft textile skeleton, proposing death as a moment of material transformation rather than a final conclusion. Across the works, textile communicates through practice and repurposing, with meaning forming through touch rather than words or explanations.


**17 Jan | Sat | 18.00–20.00: Exhibition Opening
Subscribe to our newsletter

Name:

Email:

We will not share your name or email with third parties and of course you can unsubscribe at any time.