WRAPPING, FOLDING, TWISTING, KNOTTING...

The plan of the Exhibition
 So the weeks go by…sometimes I wonder where they went and oh so fast. I am gently reminded by the brochures on my desk that there are three exhibitions to write up. Well here we go, but not in the order that I saw them!

Shirley Hicks « Lifelines » was once again, someone new. And fascinating at that. It was on at the Beaubourg and when I arrived, no-one in sight.

Since the late 1950s, Sheila Hicks (1932 - ) has been producing work which, in my book, is impossible to categorise. Knotting, wrapping, folding, twisting and stacking wool, linen and cotton: these are only some of the techniques and materials that have seen her undermine conventional artistic categories and their hierarchical relationships. She is by birth American but now lives and works in Paris. Until I saw her work, I had no recollection of seeing it before, even if there have been different exhibitions in Paris.
She chooses textiles which are materials that life constantly brings our way with so many contrasts and a variety of contexts. 
It also allows works to remain alive, taking different forms each time they are shown. This I think makes me feel that when there is another exhibition, I should go and confirm this point.
Her work is very tactile and very modern and yet follow some non-Western traditions at the the same time. The play of colour and the display to show her work which is so vibrant. This exhibition really is vast, vibrant and an extraordinary installation - it gives onto the street level and I saw people gazing in, trying to make out what it was all about. Once again, it was divided into sections of chapter of her life. I preferred to see it as a whole.
Cordes sauvages Pow Wow -2014-2015

I loved the shadows

A view of the expo.

Prayer Rug - 1972-73

















The beginning and then ...

Looking up !Incredibly High

Beauvais creepers - 2011-2012

Scattered Memories -2017-2018


Amarillo - 1960

Taxc el Viejo - 1960



Griffe - 1970



Pockets - 1982

Close up Pockets







Close up - Scattered memories
One point that I should have added was the Sheila Hicks lived in Mexico and quite clearly we see that influence in some of her work.

Of course you will notice that titles are missing. When I go around in circles and can't find them, I'm sorry to say that I give up. For me though this work didn't need titles. I just liked discovering this "tied-up" art.

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