UK | Textile exhibition with Korean and Indian artists
Until 3 January 2027, The Whitworth, Manchester (UK) will host the exhibition ‘Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven’, which brings together 8 artists and collectives from Korea and India with historic textiles from the Whitworth’s collection.
Textiles are part of everyday life. We wear them, they stretch, fade, tear and get repaired. Along the way, they soak up time, touch and memory — often without us noticing. The exhibition traces connections between Manchester’s industrial past and living craft traditions shaped by culture, migration, labour and care.
Co-organised with the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025, in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, and presented in partnership with Hyundai Motor Company, the exhibition treats textiles as active, changing materials rather than objects from the past. Through weaving, dyeing, embroidery and hand-spun fibre, it shows how skills are passed on, adapted and shared — from hand-to-hand, generation-to-generation.
Many of the new works were made through close collaboration with artisan communities across Korea and India. These projects value time, shared knowledge and slow making, offering a refreshing take on fast fashion and mass production.