Františka Benčaťová
Textile Design
Academy of Arts Architecture and Design In Prague
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Textiles / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Design and Technology
My location: Prague, Czech Republic
Františka Benčaťová
First Name: Františka
Last Name: Benčaťová
University / College: Academy of Arts Architecture and Design In Prague
Course / Program: Textile Design
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Textiles / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Design and Technology
My Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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About
I see textiles as a medium with which I can discover The Landscape around me as an adventurer. The Landscape is my secret special place that I have created for myself and that I like to return to in my mind. A place where reality meets fantasy, sensory perceptions and structures, memories and stories. This world can arise again and again, transform and disappear each time. It can be comforting and huggable, but it can also be unkind. As a true explorer, I also want to share my discoveries, the territories I have found, and here textiles become a tool for me to transfer the images of my mind into the material visible world. Thanks to its natural adaptability and diversity on the one hand, it reminds us of the landscape itself and the way it itself arises: from microstructures, patterns, colors and shapes. By transformation and multiplication, as it grows as a structure from precise systems, but retains flexibility, softness and dynamism. That is, textiles are also in themselves, The Landscape - a new territory. On the other hand, its soft and tactile nature allows me to materialize the unseen, feelings and emotions. The textile is also my mediator, the creator of a dialogue between my senses and the empty space around me. It can sensitively record every nuance of the external and internal. That's why I like to play with its structurality, the ability to go from two-dimensionality to three-dimensionality, and by manipulation I test the limits of its possibilities. Like a child who explores anew every time, with a certain amount of humor and poetry.
Basket-like, basket-what, basket-why...
WHAT? The project speculates on the possibilities of mimic textiles demonstrated on the object of the basket and plays out a spatial and visual illusion. Through a pseudo-scientific approach and absurdity, I mystify the plane of reality of the basket with its biographical ontology and relationships and bring them into a parallel reality. I create a fictional notion of textile mimicry to describe the basket imitating itself, in its own world. An archive emerges highlighting the subtle nuances, details, and properties of textile media, revealing the agency of everyday ordinary things that surround us. I explore these qualities in the simple interweaving of the horizontal and vertical lines of the basket, which are expressed in RGB colour categories. In the spatial plane (blue) I explore spatial vertical effects by using my own bindings and efect yarns. In the visual plane (green) I use the gradient tool for a planar illusion. In the third plane (pink) I combine these two aspects together to create a double illusion. HOW? The basket can be considered as one of the earliest textile expressions of man, thanks to which textile techniques, including weaving techniques, have been expanded and developed. Therefore, in this project I am specifically working with the jacquard weaving technique, which can be seen as a certain momentary last stage in the development of this technique. I carry out the work on a Bonas Picanol digital jacquard loom at the FTI-Labe in Ghent with the support of technician Kurt Gabriel. During 2022 I was in Ghent on a study exchange, precisely because I wanted to get more into jacquard weaving. I learned how to program my own weaves or multi-layered fabrics in Pointcarre, which I am building on in this work. At the same time, my project has also been selected to be carried out at the Textile Museum in Tilburg, where I am carrying out part of my thesis on a Dornier Staubli jacquard loom with the help of Marjan van Oeffelt. WHY? This project brings a play with exaggeration, an experiment in technology exploring the boundaries of jacquard weaving. It draws attention to the subtle nuances, details and qualities of textile media, a multiplicity of perspectives on a simple object whose complexity can best be perceived through different layers of viewpoints rather than its whole. The project reveals the agency of the ordinary everyday things that surround us. https://basketlike.cargo.site/
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