3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue

Day by day our life becomes more orderly,
wealthy, cultured, better and right. You
could say – European. And we should be
pleased that everybody has got a good job,
good housing, good food and drink, good
clothing, good air to breathe, good water,
etc…. Everything is good and right for
everybody, following the most accurate
European standards. Within the frames of
these standards we become healthier, wiser,
more beautiful, younger and more conceited.
We are becoming more similar to each
other and it will last until we are absolutely
identical. The result is medium uniformity
and accuracy.
The sweet and contagious virus of equality, uniformity
and mediocrity travels within the
Europe.
I was an invited artist – jury member of the 3rd
European Textile and Fibre Art Triennial. It
was a very hard task after long discussions
of each work during the process of selection
of submitted 250 artworks to carry out the
final decision.
This time the exhibition will present artworks
fashioned by 61 artists. These works manifest
different artistic interpretations of globalization,
which is the main idea of the
show. The different views expressed in these
artworks, probably, might help us to find
answers to the problems put forward by our
epoch.
My dear colleagues, my only consolation is that
three years later for the next upcoming
Triennial, some of you, in your turn, will,
probably, have to fulfil this indisputably complicated
task of final selection.
Yours sincerely,
Dzintra Vilks, M.A.
Textile artist
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