Curator: Shahed Saffari
Thursday, October 16 – November 20, 2025
Download exhibition PDF catalogueKashan, a historic center of textile production in Iran, still carries traces of this legacy in its architecture and collective memory. Hosting Disconnect to Connect: Contemporary Fiber Art in the Kashan Textile Industrial Town makes this bond tangible, turning the city’s historical and industrial fabric into a living ground for experiencing the works.
Amid all formal and technical differences, the works share an inner connection: a return to the past and its recreation in the present. At times, this past relates to the artist’s family history and personal experience; at others, it belongs to the collective and historical memory that continues to run through the fabric of our lives.
Threads, warps, and fabrics here are not mere materials; they are tools for recording and transmitting memory. The artists employ techniques rooted in tradition to shape a new language that reflects today’s individual and social experiences.
This project seeks to show how textiles and fiber art, while deeply tied to tradition, can serve as a space for contemporary and personal expression. Here, textile art is not a reproduction of the past, but a site for reimagining the lived experiences of artists today.
