I graduated as a textile designer at the College of Applied Arts, now MOME. I wanted to be involved in the creation of textiles, which is why I weave by hand. My exhibition, Inner Garden, is about textile art.
Art and weaving bring out the good things in me. That is why I return to weaving from time to time. It has become a meditative process for me over the last 30 years. It reflects back on us, what we do, what we wear, what we eat, where we live.
The Garden has been an important place since I was a child. Being in a garden is calming, liberating. I can be myself. As we cultivate the garden, we cultivate the inner garden of our soul, our mind. I build my texts line by line, as our thoughts are built. Whether it is a single layer or a multi-layered fabric.
I always choose my materials carefully, thinking as a textile designer. Since there is no longer a raison d’être for homemade video tapes, I have started collecting them for my fabrics. My TADA (free) sacred textile series are also made from it. As art is incorporated into people’s lives, so are these tapes into my archaic textiles.
My Of Course sacred wall tapestry series is a traditional wool tapestry series with geometric weaving of UV reactive cords. The motifs are wounds, like wounds in the fabric that we acquire throughout our lives. These wounds make us unique, they shape our individuality. They make us stronger.
Bernadett Páger