re-(t)exHile / Oslo – textile art, responsibility and global waste
Exhibition and seminar, 17th of Octobre 16:00-19:30, 18th of Octobrer 2025, 12:00 – 17:30
Deichman Library, Bjørvika, Oslo
A powerful art project that stitches together stories of fashion, environment and colonial structures.
re-(t)exHile is an international artistic research project that investigates the consequences of the global textile waste crisis. The project started in Lagos and has since grown through collective sewing and textile installations in Slovakia, Chile – and now Oslo.
In October, the project will come to Deichman Bjørvika in collaboration with KORO, with an installation and an international seminar. Here, the audience is invited to reflect on fast fashion, overproduction and Europe’s role in the global flow of used clothing. The artwork is expanded through collaboration with students from KHiO and volunteers from diverse backgrounds. The project concludes with a performative intervention in Oslo City Hall, where textiles from all the project chapters are gathered – as a visual and symbolic gesture against the recurring colonial patterns in the fashion industry.
A project by Maria Alejandra Gatti, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen and Anto Lloverasre-(t)exHile is an international artistic research project that investigates the consequences of the global textile waste crisis. The project started in Lagos and has since grown through collective sewing and textile installations in Slovakia, Chile – and now Oslo.
In October, the project will come to Deichman Bjørvika in collaboration with KORO, with an installation and an international seminar. Here, the audience is invited to reflect on fast fashion, overproduction and Europe’s role in the global flow of used clothing. The artwork is expanded through collaboration with students from KHiO and volunteers from diverse backgrounds.
The project concludes with a performative intervention in Oslo City Hall, where textiles from all the project chapters are gathered – as a visual and symbolic gesture against the recurring colonial patterns in the fashion industry.
A project by Maria Alejandra Gatti, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen and Anto Lloveras.
Organisert av KORO.
Program
Friday 17th of Octobre
16:00 Welcome by KORO and Erik Kaspartu
16:10 Introduction to re-(t)exHile and round table conversation
17:00 Lecture: Making fast fashion out of fashion – Ingun Grimstad Klepp
17:50 Lecture and documentary: Sowing imagination – Andrei Fernandez
18:40 Lecture: The violence of donated clothing – Sunny Dolat
19:00 Film screeing: Delivery Details – The Nest Collective
19:20 End
Saturday 18th of Octobre
12:00 Welcome
12:05 Lecture: Responsible Consumers and the Environmental Impact of Fashion – Outi Pyy
13:10 Workshop: Broken No More: The Art and Joy of Repair – Marium Durrani
14:50 Lecture: Congruence of Cloth – Kallol Datta
15:50 Lecture: Displacement grammars – Rodolfo Andaur
16:40 Round table conversation with all guests, moderated by Kwame Aidoo
17:30 End