Organized by the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, RugLife, opens at its second venue the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina.
The exhibition features works by contemporary artists using rugs as an inventive medium to address a range of cultural topics, from housing and the environment to technology and global politics. The classic rug form is reimagined from the woven yarns we might expect to surprising materials as cardboard, video, hair combs, collage, and plastic furniture. No matter the substance it uses, each of the rugs in RugLife weaves a thoughtful discourse about many issues and concerns—on both personal and global scales. Ai Weiwei's rug in collaboration with WWF-UK, Tyger (2022), will be on display.
Learn more at weatherspoonart.org.
