Sanity Samplers
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
2017 - Ongoing
Cotton thread on found handkerchiefs and discarded fabric
Sanity Samplers
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
2017 - Ongoing
Cotton thread on found handkerchiefs and discarded fabric
Sanity Samplers
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
2017 - Ongoing
Cotton thread on found handkerchiefs and discarded fabric
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
Sanity Samplers
2017 - Ongoing
Cotton thread on found handkerchiefs and discarded fabric
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
Documenting and healing mental breakdowns through stream-of-consciousness stitching. The text is not prewritten on paper, but directly stitched on fabric as its first and only medium.
LAYLA KLINGER
B. 1993, Tel-Aviv
Based in New York City.
Education
2019 - 2021 Parsons School of Design - MFA Textiles
2013 - 2018 Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art. - Textile Design BFA
2016 - 2017 The Swedish School of Textiles
Grants & Awards
2019-2021
Provost Scholarship, Parsons School of Design
University Scholarship, The New School
2017
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Creative Excellence Grant
Exhibitions & Festivals
Solo Shows
2020
Rosenfeld Gallery - Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2019
House of Dwelling - Carmel Forest Spa Resort
Fresh Paint Art Fair, Artists' Grennhouse - Tel Aviv
Fiberart International 2019 - Pittsburgh, PA, US
FRATZ Atelier "Nesting" - Berlin, Germnay
Stitch Fetish 7 - Los Angeles, CA, US
2018
Tel Aviv Nightlight Festival - Neve Sha’anan, Tel Aviv
‘Queer Bureau’ - Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa
Bush Collective - The Pasaz, Tel Aviv
‘Craftology’ - Royal Beach Hotel, Tel Aviv
Bush Collective - The Office Gallery, Tel Aviv
Durational Performance Space - Sheikh Abrik Festival, Northern Israel
2017
Final year exhibition in the Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel
2016
DLD Innovation Festival, Tel Aviv
2015
Strike! - feminist rock opera
Internships
2017 - 2018 Lion Brand Yarn Company, design department
2015 Hawthorne&Heaney, bespoke embroidery studio
photos by Elisheva Gavra