COLOUR DIALOGUE

YEAR: 2020-2021

EXHIBITION: Graduation show Design Academy Eindhoven at Dutch Design Week 2021.

 
Several people wearing handwoven, hand dyed and industrial knitted pieces of textile in nuances of pink. The four people are placed in powerful performative positions.

Photo by Femke Reijerman

 

Living in a world in which language abilities denote power and words are wielded as weapons, it is in materiality that Ida Blichfeld found refuge and expression for her dyslexia. The anxiety of being misunderstood and misplaced by knowledge institutions. A range of industrially knitted and handwoven wearable and non-wearable armours are constructed by exaggerating tensions between hard-soft, right-wrong and loud-quiet. The constructed landscapes of treads and colours, in particular pink, are used as a non-language that can express without words, and create identities that repel and fascinate. 

The work takes the stage as a performative installation, where a video gives a glimpse into the designer’s inner monologue reflecting on the physical and mental impact of words. As a contrast, the externalising performance with the soft armours is an extension of a diversity of bodies that moves with and against the spoken word. Through the dialogue between materiality, words and movement, binaries become symbiotics. 

An action lies in the hue. 

The knitted pieces are produced in collaboration with The Knitwear Lab and supported by Knitting Holland. The video work is made in collaboration with sound designer David Huss, photographer Pete Ho Ching Fung and graphic designer Frederikke Becher & Natasha Linde Krebs.

 
 
Oversized top pieces hanging in front of a wall playing a video work. In the foreground a detail of handwoven fabrics blurred from the light of the video. The knitted design is a plated net jacquard with inlay, made in cotton yarn and elastics.
 
Two performer interacting with their eyes in oversized pink knittede armours. The patterns in the knit is moving woven structures, in nuances of pink.
 
 
Loosely handwoven fabrics in pink hanging in a metal rod on the wall, the textile is printed with transfers print consisting of a piece text. The yarns is hand dyed cotten and linen.
 
Handwoven pink wearable top hanging sculptural in the wall. Hanging in elastics and metal who is also used to attache it to the body.
 
Person dressed in black wearing a pink knitted cap. The textile flooded down the body to the floor ending with heavy metal rings and ropes.
 
 
 
Live performance at Dutch Design Week 2021 at graduation show Design Academy EIndhoven. People performer dressed in handwoven and knitted pink wearable armours. A soft moment of affection. Video work in the background.