Neve Insular · Cotton Window
Cotton Window
Composition
Cloth — ni together with the weaver Cândida Rocha, using agroecological cotton from the ni crop in collaboration with AAPCM and Mulheres do Vale.
Mahogany wood frame — ni together with Aquiles Neves.
Synopsis
The ni Window is designed in Neve Insular Time. The beginning of a fiction where hand-spun cotton meets other materials associated with the fibre. A work dreamed collectively, in which the extra-cotton detail is an opening that expands the island dimension.
As part of the strip cloth, it is inevitably the legacy of a heritage of knowledge crossed between Manjaco and Pepel weavers (peoples of present-day Guinea-Bissau) held captive in the Cabo Verde archipelago and the Portuguese, some six hundred years ago.
