For the first time at Révélations, a collection of plant and textile works from Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, enters into dialogue with the international works of the Banquet. The weaving of pandanus leaves and roots, rattan and sago palm bark coexist serenely with the weavings of creative indigenous communities, including those of the Bangie Embol Living Treasure of the Iban people.
“Fiber Arts of Sarawak, Malaysia…. Expressions Beyond the Ordinary” presents the traditional and contemporary in Fiber Arts. The works are in bamboo, rattan, pandanus leaves and roots, tree bark, sago palm bast, ‘bemban’(arrowroot), handwoven natural dyed textiles in cotton and silk etc.
Révélations is the opportunity to showcase to the World the beauty of natural fibres arts and the contemporary arts using such fibres by artists and communities in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.
