Once considered more craft than art, the medium is being revived — with fine work on show at Art Basel Hong Kong
The art world looks different from Hong Kong: different priorities, different histories and geographies and a different public. One of the strengths of this year’s Art Basel fair is the number of galleries showing textile works from cultures with widely varying traditions in the medium. Madrid-based gallery Sabrina Amrani is offering a solo presentation by Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian, known for his embrace of a wide range of traditional, local materials. It will include 1980s works using hand-dyed cotton. In the Discoveries section, German gallerist Kadel Willborn will show Emirati artist Ayan Farah, who uses textile and ceramic works to explore ideas about colonialism in Africa.
