Age of Humanity is part of a series of tapestries that we made who are inspired by divinities, beliefs, myths and metamorphoses.
This specific piece is based on a story written by Ovid about the successive ages of humanity.
Ovid offered an account of the successive ages of humanity, from a primordial age where humans enjoyed an almost divine existence to the present age, where humans are beset by countless pains and ills. Every age is symbolically represented by different metals, from the most precious one to the poorest kind. As the value decreases, the hardness increases .
We, as textile artists, find this symbolic measurement quite interesting and use it to think about the materiality of this piece : the balance within the materials, the softness , the weights, the movement .
And so, the aim was to reconnect human ages , activities, and beliefs to nature, beauty, the environment, and preciousness and well-being.
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