Organised by the German intermediary organisation for international cultural exchange in cooperation with Central Tunis and the Goethe-Institut Tunis, "The Event of a Thread" is curated by Inka Gressel and Susanne Weiss, in cooperation with Emna Ben Yedder and Soumaya Jebnouni. Between contemporary art installations, textile sculptures known as soft sculptures, contemporary embroidery, weaving, thread drawing, needle painting, textile paintings and video art, the exhibition puts the emphasis on work created by foreign artists, but also by Tunisians.
The travelling exhibition will continue until 11 March at the Cultural Space in Tunis. In this context, the Centre des Arts Vivants in Rades will open its doors on 4 March for a visit to the tapestries of Safia Farhat (1924 - 2004), in the presence of the artist's niece, Aïcha Filali.
Safia Farhat is a pioneer of the plastic arts in Tunisia, a draughtswoman, painter, ceramist, upholsterer and decorator. She contributed to the reform of art education. She was the first Tunisian director of the School of Fine Arts in Tunis, where she taught at the end of the 1950s. With her husband, she created the Centre des arts vivants de Radès, which they donated to the Tunisian state. She created stained glass windows, drawings, paintings, bas-reliefs, frescoes and especially decorative tapestries.
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