Cut from a Bigger Cloth

Cut from a Bigger ClothCut from a Bigger Cloth reflects the path that brought Addoley Dzegede to making textile work based primarily on the history of wax print and how Dutch manufacturers copied Indonesian batik through an industrial process, making a cloth that eventually became so identified with Africa that many don't realize its origins. The book is divided into sections, including photos from Addoley's family archive of studio photographs in the years following

Menna Barreto and Buggilla posit the intellectual work of digestion as a way in which we can process

The publication includes a conversation between Hans Tan and Justin Zhuang about the project and its ideas

Even though we are away from the physical "home"

How do we celebrate critical pleasures

The artist examined these imprints by continuously enlarging them

which he juxtaposes with his black-and-white photographs

the artist has invited some friends to propose texts around a question that deals with the notion of compagnonnage or tutorship

and the colour palette references riso thoughout

ways of thinking and behaviors

Matthias Pees

seeming slips of the tongue

as the game itself is full of political metaphors