Weave, unravel, repair

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What do darning and protest have in common? Can a jumper be taken care of? What does DIY have to do with postmodernism? The weave, unravel, repair exhibition is an invitation to a material world in which threads rupture, soles wear out, and cables are stripped of their insulation. To a world where we don't run away from problems, but repair instead.

Even the best-designed things break, wear out, go out of fashion. Forget for a moment about artificial intelligence, experts, ready-made solutions. All you have is your hand – and whatever happens to be at hand. What do you do with it?

Start in the simplest way: sew on a button. Borrow a mending mushroom from your grandmother. Buy a pair of sharp scissors. Sew, stitch and sew again. You don't need to know anything, this knowledge will form at the crossroads of your eye and hand. This is not too little. Because behind these small actions is more than just practice: it is a decision to be in the world in a different way.

We invite you to an exhibition about fixing – but not just things. About care, attentiveness, an alternative approach to technology, work, objects and everyday life. Patchwork, patch, darn – these are more than techniques. In a world accustomed to replacing and throwing away, they are the language of resistance and care.

We will look for inspiration where practices and ideas intertwine: in everyday ingenuity, domestic patents, Japanese craft culture, as well as in the texts of Donna Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin or object-oriented philosophy. To repair is to create new relationships. Between the human and the thing, the future and the past, the broken and the possible.