FITE – Textile Biennial
COMING TO CLERMONT-FERRAND
PLAY
from 07/02/2024 to 01/12/2025
The Biennial places
- Bargoin Museum
- Musée d’art Roger-Quilliot
- Hôtel de Région
- Salle Gilbert-Gaillard
- Espace Canopée, Siège Michelin
- Chapelle des Carmes-Déchaux
- Centre Camille Claudel
- Galerie Quatrième
- Hôtel littéraire Alexandre Vialatte
- Mille formes
- Showroom Galerie 7 (Lyon)
- Musée des Manufactures de Dentelles (Retournac)
- Maison des Grenadières (Cervières)
This edition is co-produced with SESC São Paulo, which will host the biennial in 2025 in Brazil.
FITE has chosen the theme «PLAY» because play is a space and a time apart from everyday life, with its own rules and its own limits, which encourages the explo- ration of other ways of relating to oneself, to others and to the environment. It produces pleasure, educational value, emancipating energy, an exercise in reason and strategy. It fosters creativity, problem-solving skills, divergent thinking and the development of new ideas.
The central exhibition at the Musée Bargoin adopts the principle of playing and of presentation, «truth» and «knowledge». «knowledge». It offers artists the museum as a playground, within which each plays in his or her own way and reveals something of our contemporary societies.
50 artists, designers and heritage collections
32 nationalities
7 highlights
13 workshops, meetings and tours
WHERE & WHEN ?
One theme is voted for 2 years !
WHOM ?
The HS_Projets Association
Association under the 1901 Law. International actors of textiles : artists, designers, dancers etc. The association works to structure exchanges and cooperation between regional, national, european and international actors by organizing events such as the FITE.
WHOM ?
The City of Clermont-Ferrand
WHOM ?
The museum Bargoin
Whose collections are unique in France, pursue a remarkable work on extra-european textiles invite us to an unseen travel.
WHOM ?
Clermont Auvergne
Métropole
Urban community, work for the reinforcement of the intercommunalitiy to make things better together, especially as part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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