Opening Celebration of 'You Stretched Diagonally Across It'

Opening Celebration of You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry

Friday, 11 April 2025

7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Free Admission, Two Complimentary Drinks (21+)

161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Dallas Contemporary is pleased to present You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, a group exhibition bringing together thirty artists, and opening 11 April 2025. Organized by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, the exhibition is at once a taxonomical examination and categorical collapse, offering extended engagement with tapestry while reflecting how contemporary artists have magnified and challenged the material, ideological, and narrative conventions of the age-old medium.

Expanding on a recent spate of exhibitions featuring historical textile works, You Stretched Diagonally Across It presents contemporary tapestry as an active inflection point for unresolved inquiries into the human condition, including notions of tradition and authenticity, durational effort in the face of technological mediation, and depictions of vastness and omniscience in physical form.

Exhibiting artists include: Caroline Achaintre, El Anatsui, Hellen Ascoli, Yto Barrada, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Negma Coy, Jovencio de la Paz, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Sanaa Gateja, Yann Gerstberger, Marie Hazard, Ane Henriksen, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Sanam Khatibi, Tomasz Kowalski and Alicja Kowalska, Candice Lin, Goshka Macuga, Christy Matson, Jorge Méndez Blake, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Rosalena, Analia Saban, Lee ShinJa, Kiki Smith, Mika Tajima, Clarissa Tossin, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.

To accompany the exhibition, Los Angeles-based vintage textile library and shop Kneeland Co. will take over and activate the Dallas Contemporary store, featuring specially designed ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and collectibles, for sale exclusively in the shop. All pieces are specially designed for and inspired by You Stretched Diagonally Across It, and will even include works by artists featured in the exhibition.

About Su Wu

Su Wu is a writer and independent curator based in Mexico City, examining forms and concepts drawn from the history of art and design to investigate premises of utility, capability, and need. Across commissions, collaborations, and curatorial projects, she among the leading advocates in a new generation of curators of post-disciplinary art, applying taxonomical interrogation and sympathy for elision to an emerging field of discourse and practice at the intersection of art, craft, design, and architecture, while considering the conditions and strategies that turn one into another.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

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MUSEUM POLICIES

No food or drink, please | No se permite comida ni bebida

Photography permitted, but no flash | Solo fotografía sin flash

Please refrain from touching the art | No tocar el arte

This is a weapon-free zone | Zona libre de armas

With this registered admission, I give permission for the Dallas Contemporary to use my photograph and other media such as film and quotations, on Dallas Contemporary promotional material and publications, for which it may be suitable.

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Caroline Achaintre, Seeker, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.