For his first solo show at Asbestos Art Space, Berlin and Helsinki -based artist Vinski Valos presents F I B E R, a series of soft tapestries inspired by the concept of the string.
Cables, yarns, neon sign italics, pick-n-mix string licorice, pixelated strokes of color on MS Paint, the warp and weft of woven rugs, smeary swirls of oil paint, muscle fibers exhausted – all things drawn out, coiled, strung, tugged at, extended, pulled, stretched, bitten into.
In Valos’s works color seems drawn out and spun like the memories that hold a person together. The individual fibers taper out and end – yet, the rope holds.
The invention of string also underlies humanity’s most prominent inventions: wires that enable telecommunication, cables that hold up elevators and bridges, yarns that envelop our bodies in the form of fashion and protect us from the elements.
A fiber is the elementary particle of human experience.
What is your favorite kind of fiber?
