Embroidery in Art - Olja Stipanovic

Embroidery is a form of art. When it intersects with other forms of art, the result is innovative and contemporary. An illustrative example is the artwork of Olja Stipanovic, an emerging artist from Croatia. One of her exhibitions, called "Stitches", uses embroidery combined with photography and drawings on a rice paper, to express the tangibility of human skin with marks related to human body.

Human body as an embodiment tool with so many experiences in cultural, social and personal life carries numerous codes of identification, articulating at the same time notions and ideas. By using the red thread she writes on "rice" new substitutes with an aim to articulate the body as a word, thought or semantic code (for more details click here).

Her stitches originate from a variety of myths, through kids' games or simply, palm readings, creating her own "bodies".

I hope you liked this post. I have never imagined embroidery used in this way. Have you used or seen other people use embroidery in a similar or other contemporary way?

KP