Kolton and Fahima refer to themselves as “manual workers” and describe the work on the exhibition as a factory, with a rigid routine and many hours of hard physical labor. The products are love stories that emerge from the textiles and texts. They examine the threads that extend between machine, craft, and textiles – the link between thread and story, fabric and fabrication, text and textiles, the craft of storytelling and that of weaving. In the world of their creation, threads of thought and fate are interwoven. It is a world in which the yarn has a voice, where creaking looms tell stories, where the weaver’s performative action is interlaced with the fabric, where absurdity can be communicative and playfulness is achieved through manual effort.

The exhibition is supported by the Lauren & Mitchell Presser Contemporary Art Grant; The Foundation for Independent Creators, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Mifal HaPais Council for Culture and the Arts; Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art; Mira and Aaron Fahima

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