Michael Raedecker at Hauser & Waith

 

Just been to see Michael Raedecker at the Hauser & Waith gallery. His new work is a mixture of paint and embroidery with delicate silvery threads and carefully muted tones. The best pieces were the torn and then restitched canvases of suburban bungalows and if you looked carefully you could spot punctured holes from discarded threads and messily  haphazard stitching. This all served to unsettle the calm stillness and create a sense of disjointed other-worldliness, of fragments from dreams or stills from films long forgotten. Quite lovely...

The Stuff That Matters - Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub

This was the most beautifully displayed exhibition I have been to in a long while. There was room after room of carefully selected items and they trusted us not to riffle through the layered textiles hung on walls and folded on shelves. Perhaps it was that level of trust that turned the exhibition into a mediation on appreciating the smallness of everyday items. Or maybe it was the quietness of the 18th century building with the light falling through the windows...  Either way it was gorgeous, go and see.