# @centre3_ on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-01-10T16:46:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Centre[3] (@centre3_) — https://gondola.cc/centre3_

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✨Jill Letten (AiR): Hanging by a Golden Thread🪡

🗓️January 5 – February 16, 2024

📍Opening Reception: Friday, January 12, 7–10 PM (Centre3)

ARTIST STATEMENT:
Hanging by a Golden Thread is an experimentation of textiles utilizing recycled materials and clothing, repurposing them into tangled yet intentional tapestries that explore the interconnections of the textile waste industry, overconsumption, and capitalism. The synthetic material composing much of the fabric used has been assembled using slow fashion techniques such as hand stitching and weaving.

Inspired by mid-century advertisements and fashion archives, the works serve as a conversation between figures and backgrounds. The artworks represent the visuals of textile waste, with textures and shapes distorting depth and space, consuming the painted figures. The chaotic patterns of the quilted and woven fabric are made to emulate the layering of fabric in how it appears in landfills, slumping together in massive heaps. The garments worn by the figures have become absorbed into the tapestry becoming insignificant to the whole of the work, leaving the figure and the collaged surface at the forefront to be confronted.

ARTIST BIO:
Jill Letten is an artist from Hamilton, Ontario, accredited with a BFA from McMaster University’s Studio Arts program. She is a contemporary realist painter creating acrylic paintings that visualize realistic, and sometimes surrealistic, environments. The word ‘anemoia’ has become a term of interest, defined as “a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.” Pulling from mid-century aesthetics and imagery for visual inspiration, Jill is interested in examining the visuals of social euphoria and rose-tinted idealism. The process of layering visuals that call on the past to be viewed in a modern context is something that she is creatively intrigued by. Inviting viewers to examine beneath the fragments of what is visible to connect and relate to past lives through a relatable or critical lens.
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