Marie Schumann
Displaying the Display
Marie Schumann (1991)
100% independent
Master Lucerne School of Art & Design, 2017
Displaying the Display
2022–2023
Studio, Zurich and weaving mill, Appenzell
Zurich (studio), Appenzell (weaving mill). Within my work, I move between theoretical and practical research. Project in which, on the technical side, I pushed the boundaries of the loom with Monosuisse Monofil yarn and its properties. This yarn is very stiff and “fights” against the usual shrinking percentage of woven fibres. I used this potential to build up three-dimensional textiles by combining it with super-high shrinking yarn. Using a hollow weft and a fine warp at the same time additionally creates three-dimensional, light-reactive surfaces that behave like bodies but look like screens.
For the weaving: weaving mill (Tisca Tischhauser AG) in Bühler, Appenzell; Yarn supply: Monosuisse AG in Emmen, Lucerne
Textile objects, textile displays, wall hangings, woven works, soft objects
Approx. 1,400 × 2,000 × 5 – 20 mm
Monosuisse-Monofil, Trevira CS, viscose, polyester
The series of soft sculptures and objects made on industrial jacquard weaving looms in Appenzell questions the textile status quo. How to embody soft space? How to act textile? • The act of displaying highlights something, gives it importance. We then maybe focus, get closer, touch. K.L.H. Wells, meanwhile, describes the textile ambivalence thus: “To display a textile generally makes it functional, but a textile on display also commonly conceals something behind or beneath it.” 1 • Half of the process displayed took place digitally. Through active gestures 2 of unfolding, shaping and inhabiting one can create visibility, but at the same time communicate 3 and create new (textile) connections in both worlds, virtual and real.
1 – Wells, K.L.H. Display. In: Textile Terms: A Glossary. Edition Imorde, Hrsg. Anika Reineke, Anne Röhl, Mateusz Kapustka und Tristan Weddigen. 2017. P.77.
2 – Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology. Duke University Press, Durham & London. 2006. P.11.
3 – Bibliographica Textilia Historiae. Towards a General Bibliography on the History of Textiles Based on the Library and Archives of the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (New York: International General, 1997), P.9.
