Exhibition: Indiennes Remix  

The "Indiennes Remix" exhibition offers a rereading of the motifs, structures and meanings of "Indiennes" - painted or printed cotton fabrics imported from India and very much in vogue from the 17th-18th centuries onwards. Cultural textile objects that crossed three centuries and several continents, from East to West, indiennes were intensively produced in Mulhouse. The exhibition showcases the work of nine students from the Art and Design options, with a focus on textiles, who have carried out creative explorations based on the Museum of Printed Textile collection of rare and unique indiennes. Through a personal approach, the aim is to reorient and amplify these historically significant objects, addressing a range of political and economic issues, the relationship to cultural heritages, identity, form and materiality. Freeing themselves - or not - from the limits of textiles, the students sought to connect different realities by imagining manifest objects of multiple forms.