MOVEMENT (ARREST) by Jane burns consists of ten hand woven works exploring the tension between individuals and authority at the moment of arrest. The series examines the clash between urgent social movements and political resistance and the title refers both to the act of arrest and to broader efforts to suppress emerging citizen movements.
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MOVEMENT (ARREST) by Jane burns consists of ten large-scale works exploring the tension between individuals and authority at the moment of arrest. The series examines the clash between urgent social movements and political resistance and the title refers both to the act of arrest and to broader efforts to suppress emerging citizen movements.
These handwoven works were created on the TC2 Jacquard loom, a computer-controlled, manually-operated handloom that allows Burns to translate photographic detail into pattern, structure, and pixel-level imagery, building each work thread by thread to large scale. Burns is interested in how this technology allows for the traditions of hand woven tapestry with the flexibility to use digital imagery and produce objects that sit between the pictorialism of painting and photography, and the materiality of weaving.
Her practice is influenced by contemporary politics and the social responses to systemic changes affecting both societal and planetary health. Drawing from news cycles and the representation of citizens engaged in political, social, and environmental protests, she considers works such as Movement (Arrest), a form of witness statement about human interaction during this time in humanity's history, when there is an increasing need for citizens to stand up.
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