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Kiki Smith in You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry

dallas contemporary, TX
11 April - 12 October 2025

You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is at once a celebration of the genre and a categorical collapse, offering extended engagement with tapestry while magnifying how its contemporary practitioners are challenging the material, ideological, and narrative conventions of the age-old medium. Across works by thirty artists, the exhibition suggests tapestry as an active inflection point for unresolved inquiries into the human condition, including notions of authenticity, durational effort in the face of technological efficiency, and depictions of vastness and omniscience in physical form. The tapestries here move beyond the rigid ethnographic categorizations that have often guided the presentation of textile in institutional settings, instead reflecting circulations of people, materials, plants, and trade colors, both native and not, and identities that are temporary and contentious, or even unverifiable.