Białostocka textile 2.0 is a soft protest blanket. With it the author commemorates long term brutal abuse against LGBTQ+ community. The blanket was produced as a reaction to the first Białystok equality march in 2019, where approximately a thousand pride marchers were opposed by thousands of members of far-right groups and others.
Białystok is famous for its traditional double cloth, called tkanina białostocka. The blanket was produced in the factory near the city, and a special colour chart was used for the production process. The blanket is very large and can cover and protect up to 16 people.
Pas_s_a_long - achromatic is an enlarged traditional kontusz belt, one of the most distinctive items of male dress of Polish nobility. Plant motifs were replaced here with stylised anatomical elements resembling women's reproductive and speech organs. The pattern is related to a woman, her objectively and instrumentally treated body and repressed voice.
Dominika Krogulska-Czekalska is Doctor of Arts and the director of the Textile Institute of Design Faculty of the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodž, where she is also a lecturer of textile design. In Decorative Textile Studio, she explores the secrets and possibilities of jacquard structures with her students. They are searching for unconventional ways of application of this traditional technology. She is working as an artist and designer.
Thanks to: Unia S.A. (Michałowice, PL)
Photography: Maša Pirc / BIEN 2021
