From - To
24.09 4.10
Place
Isabelle Bajart
EXHIBITIONS
O.NION by GJ.CoLab
About
Opening: 24.09
Following U.NION, G&J CO.LAB continues its collaborative research with O.NION, an evolving textile project developed as a series of episodes. The first chapter will be unveiled in September. With O.NION, G&J CO.LAB explores the body as a construction through layers — a space of transformation, where textile, gesture, and movement interact. The project is composed of textile pieces conceived both as a wall-based composition and as garments to be activated on the body. Presented flat, the elements exist in a suspended state — a moment of latency, awaiting activation. Detached and worn one by one, they progressively transform the static composition into a moving presence. Like the layers of an onion, each piece acts as an envelope: protecting, revealing, concealing, and transforming. Through accumulation and removal, the body is continuously redefined. Each element is developed through a specific textile technique — weaving, knitting, felting, embroidery, beading — forming a vocabulary of gestures and materials. The body becomes the site where the work is activated, where textile leaves its suspended state to enter into movement. This first episode unfolds through a deep black monochrome, conceived as a luminous and active material.
Following U.NION, G&J CO.LAB continues its collaborative research with O.NION, an evolving textile project developed as a series of episodes. The first chapter will be unveiled in September. With O.NION, G&J CO.LAB explores the body as a construction through layers — a space of transformation, where textile, gesture, and movement interact. The project is composed of textile pieces conceived both as a wall-based composition and as garments to be activated on the body. Presented flat, the elements exist in a suspended state — a moment of latency, awaiting activation. Detached and worn one by one, they progressively transform the static composition into a moving presence. Like the layers of an onion, each piece acts as an envelope: protecting, revealing, concealing, and transforming. Through accumulation and removal, the body is continuously redefined. Each element is developed through a specific textile technique — weaving, knitting, felting, embroidery, beading — forming a vocabulary of gestures and materials. The body becomes the site where the work is activated, where textile leaves its suspended state to enter into movement. This first episode unfolds through a deep black monochrome, conceived as a luminous and active material.