Japan House São Paulo, August to October 2019
Curators: Adélia Borges and Mayumi Ito
This exhibition sheds light on the NUNO company, today among the most recognized in the world for great textile design. The team, led by designer Reiko Sudo, reinterprets techniques, materials, and aesthetics of traditional Japanese textiles within a contemporary vision, employing cutting-edge technologies and new materials. NUNO’s ability for innovation is remarkable. Cotton, silk, and linen threads are combined with unusual materials such as feathers, twigs, fibers, leaves, bark, rubber, and metal. Continuous experimentation with new techniques—in pleating and dyeing, for example—are exclusively patented. Japanese culture’s reverence to nature is added to several procedures, including a willingness to use, with surprising results, leftover fabric from the production process itself. The show presented 35 different fabrics, three films showing the production process of a few products, and a panel displaying the creation process of the pieces. Visitors were allowed to handle samples of all pieces displayed. Expography by Pedro Mendes da Rocha.
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