Saltaire - Cloth & Memory 2

Installation by Caren Garfen UK

 

This is based on the lives of actual women from Saltaire drawn from the 1891 census.  Garfen's installation comprises vintage wooden reels attached to the wall, each with its own 'memory plaque' label and an 'S' for Salt and Silver, some also have ribbon wrapped round with hand stitched addresses or researched text.

 

More information has been added to this installation in the form of a booklet giving further details on some of the women, such as what happened to them after working in the mill etc. This has been researched and kindly provided by my husband, Colin Coates.



Cloth & Memory 2, Salts Mill, Saltaire

 

Fading Memories

 

Yoriko Murayama from Japan has woven the landscape surrounding Salts Mill using traditional kasurai (ikat) technique  which creates indistinct images - like fading memory. The images have been printed on Japanese paper which has been cut up and woven; the installation takes the form of a number of spiral cones each 2 metres high.

Cloth & Memory 2 - Saltaire

 

No. 23 in Cloth & Memory 2 exhibition

Salts Mill

Saltaire

 

A Japanese artist, Yoriko Yoneyama produced this installation which comprises of a suspended web of dried rice threaded on fine cotton.  Yoriko's intention is to link those overlooked elements which are essential to our survival and our cultural heritage; food and clothing - rice and fibre.

 

A very captivating installation, as the light streamed through the clear roof panels and the mirrors reflected the threaded rice grains.