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Filipa C\u00e9sar (PT), Metahaven (NL), Amalie Smith (DK)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

December 4, 2025 \u2013 May 3, 2026 <\/strong>

\u201c<\/em>The first computer was a loom. Weavers were the first programmers, and textile the fabric of the digital\u201d<\/em>
Amalie Smith <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition “Coded Threads” follows threads from the origin of the digital, the woven fabric, into today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s digital reality. The loom is the basis of binary coding: the thread can go over or under the warp, be a one or a zero. The thread is coded and acquires meaning, becomes an image, a pattern, a calculation, an algorithm. Everything can become data through the thread in the warp. The exhibition brings together three artists who work with coded threads in their art in completely different ways. All artists allow the artistic process to expand by using self-generating or collective systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the exhibition, Amalie Smith shows  an evocative installation with digitally dreamed images. Filipa C\u00e9sar follows the intercontinental slave trade and the historical routes of the textile industry. In its wake, she finds woven threads that are coded with resistance. The art group Metahaven’s jacquard-woven textile artworks function as fictional maps or thought systems. They have created a new artwork for the exhibition that builds on sketches from the museum\u2019s collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than describing a linear history of technology, the exhibition wants to see how coded threads weave contexts that are social processes. It is only when technology operates in everyday interpersonal life that it gains meaning. Threads that live together in stories. The exhibition also presents several historical works of art from the museum’s collections. They form an exhibition within the exhibition, an inner processing room that functions as a memory center with possible connections that branch out into the contemporary parts of the exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, Metahaven has done an artist residency at Skissernas Museum thanks to generous support from the LMK Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flashing lights are present in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image above: Metahaven, \u201cLiving Together in Stories\u201d (2022), jacquard weaving and video screen. Photo: Alexey Shlyk<\/sup>

Read the exhibition folder as a PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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