In Theoria: 4th International Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art: GROUP EXHIBITION
Zhejiang Art Museum

Alice Kettle participated in the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art, an exhibition that explored fibre as both material and metaphor—rooted in the ancient Chinese silk radical Mì/Sī, where ideas of relation, structure, text, texture, and culture converge. The triennial approached fibre as a fundamental language through which human thought, labour, and connection are formed.

Curated under the concept Huǎn Cún Zài, translated as Being Theoria, the exhibition drew on Aristotle’s notion of contemplation, proposing a reflective mode of art that exists between making and action. It emphasised slowness, attention, and duration—qualities inherent to textile processes and central to Kettle’s own practice.

Artists: Bai Qingwen, Joseph Beuys, Bi Rongrong, Cai Yaling, Chen Han, Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Wei, Chen Zhe, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ivana Franke, Gazetteer-novel Collective, Nathalie Gebert, Guo Cheng, Guo Yaoxian, Growing House Team, Ann Hamilton, Ho Rui An, Huang Yan, Zilvinas Kempinas, Alice Kettle, Li Haibing, Liao Fei, Lin Gang, Liu Guoqiang, Liu Jiajing, Liu Jun, Xin Liu, Liu Yujia, Assadour Markarov, Annette Messager, Peng Ke, Constanza Piña, Qin Dali, Raqs Media Collective, Kathrin von Rechenberg, Evan Roth, Ruan Yuelai, Inder Salim, Shi Hui, Shi Qing, Song Chunyang, Aiko Tezuka, The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Tong Wenmin, Wang Lei, Weaving Jungle, Bignia Wehrli, Xin Qi, Yang Chi-Chuan, Yi Group, Zhao Yao, Zheng Bo, Zhou Wenjing