Lot Essay
On the occasion of his continuous travels across various cultures and spaces, Boetti commissioned Pakistani and Afghan workshops following the most ancient weaving techniques embroideries that assert the primacy of experience over knowledge.
The present work, woven by the Berang workshop in Peshawar, Afghanistan, is intended to be read as a conceptual game, an accumulation and progression of signs that commences with: 'Alternating and dividing 625 letters of 100 colours, the colours of the world, to become one colour, the colour of the earth, and then again separating and dispersing in time, the time of change, to become wind...'
The present work, woven by the Berang workshop in Peshawar, Afghanistan, is intended to be read as a conceptual game, an accumulation and progression of signs that commences with: 'Alternating and dividing 625 letters of 100 colours, the colours of the world, to become one colour, the colour of the earth, and then again separating and dispersing in time, the time of change, to become wind...'