Portière Curtain is Giulia Cosenza’s reinterpration of a typology of interior textiles that has been used for millenia. In Roman times, curtains over doors were more common than windows and were often made from richly decorated tapestries. This work is a hybrid between a door and wall hanging.
Portière Curtain is inspired by the richly decorated tapestries that were once used to decorate walls and doors while simultaneously being an ironic reinterpretation of them. Traditionally, tapestry patterns were inspired by the floral romantic world, but here they have been replaced by an everyday object rooted in the Dutch way of life: the bicycle. The repeated pattern is worked in different coloured yarns and explores scale and varying degrees of opacity.
In the research-based project, Cosenza examines embroidery as a relevant digital decorative technique. While traditional decoration was initially developed by imitating natural or abstract approaches, today, digitally created forms of decoration are blurring the lines between traditional crafts and modern production processes.
