Traditional remix
Traditional remix is about the recovery and revaluation of traditional Textile Arts, taking the objects out of their current context and adapting them to the present time, through various textile interventions. The practical research aims to approach a series of elements and components belonging to traditional Textile Arts to be revalued, bringing the Oltenia area of Romania to the front, through pieces such as woven carpets, decorative elements specific to the area, but also utilitarian objects processed with wool as a raw material. This reinterpretation is based on textile interventions of texture and form, putting the object in a new light, with a different vision. It represents a process of rediscovery. The recovery of the object and its revaluation in an unfamiliar context, in which the main utility is lost, represents a way of looking at it as an aesthetic object with a story behind it.
Theodora Scurtu is pursuing her PhD in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the West University of Timișoara, where she also got her BA in Decorative Arts (2019) and MA in Fashion Design (2021). She is a member of the Romanian Union of Visual Artists. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Romania, and in group exhibitions in Romania, South Korea, Turkey, and Spain.
