Lilla Laura Szabó
Textile Design BA
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Concept / Textiles
My location: Budapest, Hungary
Lilla Laura Szabó
First Name: Lilla Laura
Last Name: Szabó
University / College: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
Course / Program: Textile Design BA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Concept / Textiles
My Location: Budapest, Hungary
About
Hi, I’m Lilla, a graduate of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in fashion and woven textile design. My practice focuses on the intersection of pattern design and woven materials, with a particular interest in how movement can inform the design process—both as inspiration and as a conceptual theme—shaping patterns, textures, and spatial qualities. I am passionate about exploring both experimental, art-driven textile practices and functional design solutions. In the future I aim to deepen my expertise in these areas through the Textile Design MA course at MOME as well as through personal projects.
The Island of Movements textile collection explores the subtle dramaturgy of the interaction between body and woven material. Textile serves as a medium of movement: through weaving, it becomes the visual imprint of the hand’s gestures and – responding to the movements of the human body – it flows, folds, disperses or comes back together. In the design process, I drew inspiration from dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch’s iconic performance Café Müller. First, I transformed a selected movement sequence from the chosen piece into an emotional-rhythmic score, which I then translated into woven stripe patterns. These rhythms evoke the moments of contact and separation between two people through converging and diverging stripes. Through material experiments, I created softly floating, spatially shapeable woven structures by incorporating alternative elements — metal threads, wire, fishing line and silicone tubes. It is important to me to shape the three-dimensional forms intuitively: after the fabric is woven, I bend and sculpt each piece by hand. In this way, every object becomes a unique, gesture-like expression of movement. Each element of the collection expresses the motifs of detachment, entanglement, release and dependence, while emerging from the dialogue between material and form. The collection invites the viewer to experience stillness within the fleeting moments of constant change.
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