Alaiya, Tess Rogers, Red de Rooij
Blindside ARI
I do it and you do it too seeks to present a material, technical, conceptual, social, and synchronous inquiry into the possibilities of photography, textiles, and their intersection. It magnifies processes, properties assembly, and the perpetual transformation of understanding and value.
Textiles and photos act as a container for memories: at their time of production, and through subsequent visual histories recorded through use and age. Re-examining these materials, each time with new context, information, and dialogues, facilitates multi-temporal and multi-personal experiences. This cognitive process serves as an opportunity for expansion and existence beyond normative frameworks and discourses surrounding textiles and photography.
Tess Rogers, Alaiya, and Red de Rooij work within textile and photographic mediums, investigating historical and contemporary functions, techniques, and theory in these fields. Their practices honour lineages of intergenerational and community connection, expanding on technical knowledge and cultural heritage. They work with consideration of historical and industrial textile production, and the distribution of this labour amongst geographical, racial, gendered, and class lines. I do it and you do it too magnifies the processes, properties and assembly of the artworks, illuminating materiality within textiles and photography, and the perpetual transformation of understanding and value.