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On Loss And Absence : Textiles Of Mourning And Survival

Isaac Facio
Hardback Book  |  Art  |  23 Sep 2025
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A journey through the rich histories of textiles that explores their significant cultural roles, from memorializing lost loved ones to resisting oppression

From ancient Egyptian shrouds to medieval relics, textiles have played both functional and symbolic roles in rituals of death across time and place. Featuring funeral hangings, mourning samplers, garments, and many other textiles and fragments, along with works by contemporary textile artists such as Nick Cave (b. 1959) and Angela Hennessey (b. 1971), this book highlights how these objects help people negotiate experiences of loss, grief, healing, and survival.

With over seventy textiles dating from antiquity to today, On Loss and Absence brings together examples from cultures and traditions around the world. Close-up photographs provide an intimate look at the wealth of artistic and historical information embedded in their intricate details and painstaking techniques. In four key sections—Death and Grief, Transition of Realms, Care and Healing, and Resistance and Survival—artists, conservators, educators, and scholars offer their in-depth perspectives on select objects and their context. Contemporary practitioners, including the Noqanchis collective of Andean weavers and Navajo weavers Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas, provide insight into the enduring legacies of Indigenous textile arts. A behind-the-scenes look at textile conservation examines preservation techniques in the larger thematic context of care and survival.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

Art Institute of Chicago

(September 2025–April 2026)

Title: On Loss And Absence : Textiles Of Mourning And Survival

Format: Hardback Book

Release Date: 23 Sep 2025

Author: Isaac Facio

Sku: 3482084

Catalogue No: 9780300284089

Category: Art


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