Project Space: Mercedes Azpilicueta X Lisa Konno
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Discover the creative process in the TextielLab Project Space
The Project Space of the TextielLab is a dynamic environment where art and design come together. Here, you can see works that have recently been developed through close collaboration between artists and the experts at the TextielLab. It is not only the final result that matters: the creative process itself takes centre stage. Visitors gain an insight into how ideas emerge, how sketches, mood boards, and experiments are developed, and how techniques are explored in order to arrive at the finished work.
The Project Space demonstrates how co-creation works: artists bring their vision, while the TextielLab’s experts contribute technical knowledge and innovative methods. The result is a unique blend of creativity, craftsmanship, and research, visible in both the process and the final work.
Mercedes Azpilicueta – Las mesas danzantes, 2024
Las mesas danzantes (“The Dancing Tables”) is a site-filling installation featuring a tapestry, sculptures, drawings, an animated video, and sound. Azpilicueta drew inspiration from Amalia Domingo Soler (Seville, 1835 – Barcelona, 1909), a spiritualist and advocate of women’s rights. In the nineteenth century, spiritualism offered women a unique role as mediums between earthly life and the spirit world.
The texts and ideals of Domingo Soler fuelled Azpilicueta’s creativity. The colourful tapestry, rich in references to séances and universal connections, shows how past and present merge within a decolonial and feminist perspective on the (female) body.
Photo: Josefina Eikenaar
Lisa Konno
Lisa Konno is an artist and fashion designer who explores in her work how fashion can both support and restrict the female body. Her projects examine the tensions between freedom and constraint, functionality and aesthetics. She experiments with fabrics, textures, volume, and structure, investigating how clothing both shapes and constructs.
In the Project Space, Konno reveals how her ideas take shape: from initial sketches and material experiments to prototypes and final designs. Her work engages with the physical presence of the body and the relationship between wearability and sculptural expression. By using fashion as a medium, Konno invites reflection on how clothing can express social, cultural, and personal meanings.
Her projects form a dialogue between design, art, and the body, demonstrating how a fashion design can be simultaneously practical, conceptual, and expressive.
Photo: Josefina Eikenaar
