Daiga Stahlberga is a Latvian living in France, who has been engaged in textile art for 35 years. In the looms, the artist puts not only woolen threads, but also copper wires. In the course of his creative activity, he also developed his own author’s technique. Now the diverse techniques of textile art are collected in the exhibition “Wool, copper and lace” in Jelgava’s Gedrtas Elias Museum.
Textile artist Daiga Stalberga has been living in France for 25 years, but she cannot do without singing – as well as without expressing her thoughts – in her works, so the theme of the song festival permeates the artist’s works as well. No less important is the theme of the sea, which is played up in glittering decorations woven with galvanized copper wire. “What I really like about these metal works, about galvanized copper, is that it’s alive. Also, when a person walks in circles, it changes simply. Darker, lighter it remains, just like the sea shimmers. Depending on how the light shines, that effect changes completely. The metal is loom woven. Woven on ordinary looms. I pull nylon, in the vernacular of fishing lines, and I cast metal inside the oat.”
The artist started working with galvanized copper wire weaving ten years ago, creating design objects on French orders, but at the same time she wanted to express herself more creatively.
Daiga Stälberga has had solo exhibitions in Latvia, France and elsewhere in the world, but this time a retrospective exhibition covering her 35 years of creative activity has been brought to Jelgava’s Ęedertas Elias Museum. In addition to tapestries in classical technique, there are also compositions with brocade and silk, also “lace”, as the artist calls delicate works, in her original technique. “Each series of laces has ornaments from a different artistic style of the time. These last ones are caryatids, where Art Nouveau ornaments are mostly used. And that story is about caryatids, about a woman, about the weight she carries. For our time, for which the women of the world pray. I like to talk more about that topic.”
As the representative of the museum Marija Kaupere tells ReTV, it is the first time that textile works have been developed using such unusual techniques in the Elias Museum. It was an even bigger surprise when they started taking their place in the exhibition hall. “It felt like we were in a fairytale forest. At times like between such ice crystals. It is a special technique. It gives the impression that you are somewhere completely different.”
Daiga Stalberg’s textile art exhibition “Wool, copper and lace” will be on view in Jelgava’s Ęedertas Elias Museum of History and Art until November 26.
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2023-10-20 14:42:31
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