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to come . " Etymologically , both text and textile derive from weaving ) Latin textere ( , attesting to handwriting ’ s resemblance to a weave . 20 th century philosophers and cultural theorists , including Mikhail Bakhtin and Umberto Eco , distinguished between the perception of the text as tightly closed and unequivocal , and its perception as transient and partial , allowing for an open , dialogic - polyphonic , and ambiguous reading . Jacques Derrida described the process of writing as a fabric whose weave of meanings conglomerates over time , as the text ’ s reading continues to unravel , and at the same time reweave , it . The exhibition ties the concept of territory , the textile tradition , and the textual practice together in the work of twelve contemporary artists who confront the territories which structure their lives and identities . It is the continuation of a curatorial process launched under the auspices of the Umm el - Fahem Art Gallery , whose early phase was exhibited at Mana Contemporary , New Jersey , in 2016 . “ Territories "Unraveled joins a long series of exhibitions , past and present , centered on territory and the local space . Its uniqueness lies in the focus on artworks which address the concept of territory through textile as a material , textile - oriented thought , or images originating in the tradition of textile ; for some of the artists , the very writing of the text , its visual presence , is a part of the territorial demarcation and the textilic act at the same time . Through these qualities , the featured works unfold a reality of immigration and uprooting , exile and memory , beauty and yearning , a silenced past and sizzling violence , thus constituting a space of signi fi cations and mappings , which are revealed in their instability and frailty . ✦ 1 . Maurice Merleau - Ponty , “ Eye and Mind " ) 1961 ( , trans . Carleton Dallery , in Maurice Merleau - Ponty , The Primacy of Perception ) Evanston : Northwestern UP , 1964 ( , p . 164 . 2 . Gilles Deleuze and F é lix Guattari , What is Philosophy ? , trans . Graham Burchell and Hugh Tomlinson ) London and New York : Verso , 1994 ( , p . 101 .
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