Christina Forrer | You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry

Christins Forrer is included in You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, a group exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia opening July 19, 2026 and on view through January 3, 2027. At once a celebration of the genre and a categorical collapse, this exhibition offers extended engagement with the age-old medium while magnifying how contemporary practitioners are challenging its material, ideological, and narrative conventions. Across works by thirty-two artists, the exhibition suggests tapestry as an active inflection point for unresolved inquiries into the human condition. These works explore notions of authenticity, durational efforts in the face of technological efficiency, and depictions of vastness and omniscience in physical form. The tapestries here move beyond the rigid ethnographic categorizations that have often guided the presentation of textile in institutional settings. Instead, they reflect circulations of people, materials, plants, and trade colors, both native and not. Here, identities are temporary and contentious, or even unverifiable.  

Forrer's Untitled (on brown background) (2018) is on view. 

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Fabric Workshop and Museum website.