Lucy + Jorge Orta

Homo Mondialis

From intricate pieces in embroidery appliqué, to sculpture and immersive video installations, this sweeping survey of the Ortas’ work crosses continents from the Antarctic to the Amazon, reflecting on humanity’s impact and relationship with the planet.

At its centre, is a major new commission, ‘House of Hair’, which reimagines and reconstructs the traditional Bedouin tent.

Using traditional vernacular and state-of-the art digital weaving, this dwelling sculpture imagined by Lucy Orta, is constructed from nine immense patterned tapestry panels woven at the TextielLab, Tilburg. The tapestries tell the story of a world drastically altered by climate change, merging histories of past-present-future, passing through dense jungles and desert landscapes where scarcity of resources results in conflict, yet from whose ruins emerge alternative forms of life, with new ways of living and being.