“Dvara: Conceptual Weaving” Special Project

At the Cosmoscow fair, Ekaterina and Andrey Terebenin will present a special project, “Dwara: Conceptual Weaving", dedicated to the dialogue between traditional and contemporary Indian art. The exhibition features works from the pair’s collection, combining works by contemporary Indian artists with traditional hand weaving and embroidery.

The project explores how craft traditions continue to evolve in a contemporary artistic context. Indian artists turn to handcrafted techniques not as a frozen legacy, but as a living artistic language, blurring the boundaries between craft and conceptual art.

“We just returned from the Russian North, where we were once again struck by the art of wooden architecture, one hundred percent folk, rooted in the depths of centuries and tradition, yet invariably penetrating the soul. A quote we encountered in a 16th-century chapel stuck in my mind: the architect Karetnikov, in the early 20th century, wrote of Russian northern creativity that it ‘was never stagnant or deadened; on the contrary, it sparkled with life and diversity. One form gave way to another only when those forms had completed a certain cycle, when they had said all that had to be said, it was an evolution, a transformation of one form into another.’” say Ekaterina and Andrey Terebenin.