{"id":60112,"date":"2025-01-16T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=60112"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:49:35","slug":"adrian-pepe-a-shroud-is-a-cloth","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/adrian-pepe-a-shroud-is-a-cloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Pepe:\u00a0A Shroud is a Cloth\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Pepe\u2019s poetic meditation on fragmentation and renewal gets an extended run at NIKA Project Space. It uses a monumental 200m<sup>2<\/sup> woollen textile piece that previously wrapped a building damaged in the 2020 Beirut Port explosion to highlight the relationship between materials, cultural landscapes, and ecological intimacy, \u201cchallenging the rigid demarcations between art, labor, nature, and performance through a textile medium\u201d as the gallery has it.<\/p>\n<p>The works in this show, all derived from a single source, range in scale from intimate to monumental. Wool \u2013 cleansed, processed, manipulated, and recontextualised \u2013 becomes a vessel for gestures, images, and rituals. Debris extracted from it \u2013 dirt, seeds, remnants of vegetable matter \u2013 captures the landscape within the material. Stitching, felting, and acts of assembly transform these materials into new compositions, reflecting on material processes, ecological intimacy, and the fragility of being. \u201cWool has this capacity to hold time \u2013 it is resilient yet malleable, intimate yet expansive,\u201d says Pepe. \u201cIn this exhibition, I am exploring how materials are never neutral; they shape, and are shaped by care, labor, and the environments they inhabit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To 17 May.<\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Adrian Pepe, Entangled Matters (fragment) (2024)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Adrian Pepe\u2019s poetic meditation on fragmentation and renewal gets an extended run at NIKA Project Space. It uses a monumental 200m2 woollen textile piece that previously wrapped a building damaged in the 2020 Beirut Port explosion to highlight the relationship <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/adrian-pepe-a-shroud-is-a-cloth\/\" title=\"Adrian Pepe:\u00a0A Shroud is a Cloth\u00a0\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60114,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-60112","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60112"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=60112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}