Harmony Hammond
Bandaged Grid #9, 2020 (detail), Oil and mixed media on canvas
Harmony Hammond is in the group exhibition, Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, on view from September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025.
Stedelijk Museum's press release follows:
Contemporary artists explore the transformative and subversive potential of textiles through stitching, weaving, braiding, and knotting. They communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience, addressing gender, colonialism, the movement and displacement of people, ancient forms of knowledge, and more.
Using textiles, fibre and thread, over 40 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition. Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped in cloth when we’re born and enshrouded in it when we die. As an artistic medium, textiles can speak to the joys and pains of being human, as well as the larger structures and systems that shape our world.
In this major group exhibition, we showcase over 40 international, intergenerational artists use textiles to communicate vital ideas about power, resistance and survival. From intimate hand-crafted pieces to monumental sculptural installations, these works offer narratives of violence, imperialism and exclusion alongside stories of resilience, love and hope.