Textile Spaces: Inhabiting the Interface presents a complex reading of the body-space relationship through the textile interface, specifically through installation textiles. A research work that, in the form of an essay, is based on the textile technological model that philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari propose in their book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980), which the author revisits to reflect on the textile modes from a contemporary perspective.
Starting from this approach, and understanding textiles as inter-relational machinic processes, while also as hybrid intermedial entities — moving between categories and genres — this study highlights, on one hand, the complex and relational thinking underlying the textile modes, and on the other, their materiality and spatiality, positioning fabric as a spatial interface. This framework will unfold through the exploration of the work of over 200 artists — both pioneers and contemporaries — who have worked with textiles from their processuality and haptic qualities in the installation medium. It emphasizes the shift from the static to the dynamic, from the tectonic to the topological, from the structural to the textural. Ultimately, from the striated sedentary space to the smooth nomadic space, reaching the intersection between them; where the optical and the haptic, the reticular and the rhizomatic, the intensive and the extensive intersect with one another.
A publication that not only aims to provide a renewed understanding of textiles but, by approaching them from their own woven complexity, will also propose a processual ontology of fabric, which in turn will give rise to a material theory of space. Ultimately, it seeks to rethink the place that materiality occupies in contemporary times through the textile modes.