L’oposició del polze

Exhibition by Laia Martí Puig at the CDMT in Terrassa that links textile production with artificial satellites through the lens of recycling and technique.

The exhibition brings together the work of Laia Martí Puig, who sets in dialogue two seemingly distant fields: textile making and the artificial objects orbiting the Earth. The starting point is the act of dismantling a space device, through which the artist approaches these technical objects and the telecommunications that underpin the post-digital era.

On the other hand, the work uses textile waste recovered after use, which the artist transforms into a sculptural material. This process also involves dismantling: examining the elements and layers that make up our clothing. The route invites visitors to understand technology from its tactile and technical dimension, and to consider the life cycles of materials and finite resources from a scale other than the human one.

The project is presented at the Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil de Terrassa, a documentation centre and museum devoted to textiles, which makes it of interest to anyone who wishes to connect contemporary art, technology and textile heritage.