Repetition in Rebuilding

Kate Ritchie's exhibition Repetition in Rebuilding explores the concept of home as a dynamic space woven from intimacy and affection.

Research as an intimate act. We un-weave, re-weave, only to un-weave again. Working in collaboration with found objects, I am constantly seeking the knowledge that is held in the body of textiles, held in the body of the home. This rebuilding and un-building, reveals how much I don’t know, making it a process that is never complete. Kate Ritchie's (MFA ‘23, Craft Media) exhibition Repetition in Rebuilding explores the concept of home as a dynamic space woven from intimacy and affection.

Featuring an array of materials, including pressed textiles and domestic fragments, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the gentle yet persistent act of reconfiguration. Attendees are encouraged to engage with the process, reflecting on their own vulnerabilities and the potential for renewal through this practice. The exhibition serves as a celebration of the intricate relationship between dismantling and creating, inviting a deeper understanding of what it means to build a home.

Kate Ritchie is a Calgary-based textile artist from Toronto, Ontario, receiving her BFA in Material Art and Design from OCAD University (2020) and has recently finished her MFA in Craft Media at the Alberta University of Arts (2023). Her practice consists of unweaving and reweaving, focusing on the transformative possibility of radical care, and the infinite ability for objects and people to come apart and back together again, revelling in the hems, selvedges, and seams.