Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City

Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City
March 17–July 14, 2023
curated by Media Farzin

Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City takes the textile industry as a context from which to examine the workings and impact of growth economies. The exhibition features a video essay and a series of sculptures made of ceramic, wood, metal, and thread based on Vibe Overgaard’s research in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Lowell, Massachusetts, major hubs of industrial cotton production in the United States, and the artist’s background growing up in a Danish town founded as a manufacturing center for textiles. The circuit is a recurring motif: from the fiber that winds through sculptures that evoke industrial looms, to the animated lines of the video, which trace a critical path through legacies of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and the welfare state.