Threads of Patience is a common artistic project involving the social, anthropological and artistic u
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Threads of Patience is a common artistic project involving the social, cultural, anthropological and artistic use of the fabric. Two visual artists Irini Gonou and Kleopatra Tsali coming from two different paths are meeting at the same point, the one of textile.
The essential part of Irini Gonou's work is the protecting or healing dimension. In all societies, since the most ancient times people feel the need to cover their vulnerability with something that symbolically empowers and protects. The script in many traditional cultures is considered to have a “magical” power and the written word to provide a supernatural protection. In the same way cloth is believed to be a living thing, it records life and at the same time it can be a messenger emitting healing and protective essences, a kind of cloth-shield to ward off all kind of evil intentions. In Irini Gonou's recent research Text and Textile are interacting with each other to provide a new version on the in-temporal meaning of protection.
Kleopatra Tsali in this project choοses the house as a means of expression for several reasons, mainly for its unique presence in human history but also for it's protective ability, an object that functions both as a bridge and juxtaposition as a factor of unity and protection. In her recent research Kleopatra Tsali is considering the use of fabric as a clothe but also as the simplest way to construct a house, a Berber tent pr a Mongolian yurt. Habit in French means clothe and Habitat means housing. Those two words are strongly connected with protection, sheltering and covering.
