Kumai Kyoko, who started her career as a designer, began working with textiles after seeing a shining fabric woven from color positive film and fishing line. Soon after acquiring the basic skills, she wanted to add movement to her fabric, and arrived at the idea of using stainless steel wire for the warp. This experiment eventually developed into “free-standing works” made using only stainless steel wire, and then she further expanded the possibilities of her expression by working without a loom and producing non-woven fabric works unrestricted in size. This work, which was made by entwining thin stainless steel wires, is shaped like a cube with a sphere at its center. Made possible by new industrial materials, it challenges the conception of a textile as something that is woven or knitted.
(HASEGAWA Tamao)
Kumai Kyoko, who started her career as a designer, began working with textiles after seeing a shining fabric woven from color positive film and fishing line. Soon after acquiring the basic skills, she wanted to add movement to her fabric, and arrived at the idea of using stainless steel wire for the warp. This experiment eventually developed into “free-standing works” made using only stainless steel wire, and then she further expanded the possibilities of her expression by working without a loom and producing non-woven fabric works unrestricted in size. This work, which was made by entwining thin stainless steel wires, is shaped like a cube with a sphere at its center. Made possible by new industrial materials, it challenges the conception of a textile as something that is woven or knitted.
(HASEGAWA Tamao)