Using urban tapestries to reflect the contemporary world, Moemi Takano combines culturally potent handcraft with contemporary reinvention. The distinctive ethnic traits of her craft are not lost to modernism – instead, Takano uses a variety of mark-making, embroidery, and dyeing techniques to create captivating homages to traditional Japanese handcraft, then reimagines them in a contemporary light. Her work emits a powerful message which serves to remind us of the resilient bonds between new and old.
