Name/Title
Embroidered Monochrome Propositions: O seriesEntry/Object ID
2019.06.02Description
Kathy Slade (b. 1966, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Through her various creative practices, Slade examines moments in literature, art, and popular culture, producing repetitious designs and successive iterations that play with the idea of the original and copy.
Embroidered Monochrome Propositions: O series are a series of machine embroidered textiles that reference the character Sophie in
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile (1762) who was obsessed with writing Os, learning to write them before she could even read. It equally plays on binary code which was employed to run the first textile machines and associates the number zero with female. Through what is traditionally a feminist medium, Slade re-envisions language and information. She claims the letter, presenting the O/zero, a frequent representation of nothing, as an expressive symbol of textile work and femininity.
Slade is the founder of the Emily Carr University Press. She graduated with a B.A. from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC in 1990, and received an M.A. from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland in 2018.
http://www.kathyslade.com/Artwork Details
Medium
embroidery on linenDimensions
Height
50.8 cmWidth
45.72 cm