Off the Cloth, Part II, co-curated by Karen Cordero Reiman and Yohanna M Roa, extends a critical inquiry into textile practices as sites of knowledge, resistance, and embodied memory.
Developed within the WhiteBox program and as part of its EXODUS series, the exhibition brings together artists whose work engages fiber, materiality, and process not only as formal strategies but as political and cultural positions.
The project situates textile as a methodological framework—one that intertwines histories of labor, gendered knowledge, migration, and collective making. Through this lens, Off the Cloth, Part II repositions the act of “working with cloth” as a form of critical practice, where craft becomes a space for reconfiguring narratives and producing alternative genealogies.
By foregrounding material processes and collaborative imaginaries, the exhibition opens a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, challenging hierarchies between art and craft while activating textile as a living, relational system.