Confectie - 2,8mtr 10cm rand contour

In the TextielLab, Paijmans translated his collage of jumpers into a jacquard woven fabric. Fascinated with consumerism and mass production, Paijmans investigates whether the mass production of his confection paintings results in unique works. His new work explicitly emphasises mass production. By weaving the design in its entirety, the new work can be produced faster and more efficiently than his previous work, which he sewed together by hand, piece by piece. In addition, the fabric has a beginning and an end that match perfectly, so the pattern can be repeated indefinitely, as is the case with ready-to-wear clothing.
In the new confection painting, Paijmans looked for the same kind of complexity as the jumpers sewn on top of each other in his earlier collages. The jumpers were woven in different textures, and the embroidery from the original was imitated by weaving it in an extra coarse structure. This variation in structures gives the work depth. Paijmans was inspired by damask, a weaving technique in which a design is woven with a single colour, often white on white. Due to the way the light falls on the fabric, the jumpers in his collage are clearly visible from a certain angle and seem to fade into the background from another, just like damask.