Breathing Looms by Hella Jongerius
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As part of our What’s on Your Loom series, we’re feature the latest work by designer Hella Jongerius: Breathing Looms. Jongerius’s works are a part of New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow, a groundbreaking exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, on view through August 31, 2025.
Works…
Breathing Looms is an exploration of healing and of the transformative power that objects have on people and spaces. Material culture shapes the world and what it means to be human. Objects become meaningful because of the materials they are made of and our haptic engagement with them.
The Breathing loom is a 3D woven intricate geometric structure and is crafted by weaving in multiple directions and interlacing yarns. When unfolded, the piece transforms into a spatial sculpture, revealing hidden layers and dynamic forms. The motion of folding and unfolding resembles breathing ; a product relates to the user, the touching, materiality, looking with a feeling eye. This is woven on the TC2 loom.
About…
Hella Jongerius’s research on colours, materials, and textures is never complete. All her questions are open-ended, and all her answers provisional, taking the form of finished and semi-finished products. These are part of a never-ending process, and the same is essentially true of all Jongeriuslab designs: they possess the power of the final stage, while also communicating that they are part of something greater, with both a past and an uncertain future. The unfinished, the provisional, the possible – they hide in the attention for imperfections, traces of the creation process, and the revealed potential of materials and techniques. Through this working method, Jongerius not only celebrates the value of the process, but also engages the viewer, the user, in her investigation.
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