Support Women Weavers: Céline Condorelli Artist-Edition Rugs

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Purchase this exclusive artist-edition by Céline Condorelli and support women weavers!

Currently on view in the artist’s exhibition In the Light of What We Know, rugs produced for the Integrations series are available to purchase. These functional artworks were developed and created through an ongoing dialogue between Condorelli and a group of weavers based in Morocco. Through the exchange of techniques, colour palettes, formal arrangements, and embedded meanings, extraordinary new textiles have emerged over time.

All proceeds will support better working conditions for women and weaving workshop that produced them. Only 13 of these one-of-a-kind rugs are available.

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About Integrations 

Women weavers have often driven histories of abstraction and symbolic representations in many regions of the world, including on the Great Plains. The use of a warp and weft to generate textiles, baskets, and rugs has often been sidelined in the visual arts and relegated to space of craft. Though occasionally acknowledged as sources of inspiration for modernist male abstract painters in Europe and North America, the topographic, spiritual and cultural underpinnings of the source materials are lesser known.  

Céline Condorelli spent several years exploring abstraction as women’s work through the legacy of the experimental and anti-colonial Casablanca Art School (1962-1974), which became an important place to re-think the relationship between art and craft, and to rewrite art history from a non-European point of view. Starting from the rich history of Amazigh (also known as Berber) material culture, and reconnecting it within an Afro-Arab context, students were able to explore without the limiting distinctions and hierarchies between various materials and techniques.  

These rugs honour the legacy of the Casablanca Art School and reverse a common museum practice of showing pieces such as textiles and illustrations as the inspiration for better-known artists in more widely coveted media like painting.  

Learn more about In the Light of What We Know 

Inhabiting the in-between spaces of Remai Modern, the exhibition In the Light of What We Know, invites visitors to encounter and experience the museum in new ways.

The project by Céline Condorelli asks questions about the role of museums in their communities and what these extraordinary public spaces can offer. Her artworks allow us to see, to play, to rest, to learn, and reimagine the world together when we are not ‘at work’.

Visit remaimodern.org to learn more about the exhibition and to see what else is on view at the museum.

Installation photos by Carey Shaw

Product photos by Molly Schikosky