UK 

Céline Condorelli is a London-based artist, and one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK; she made the book Support Structures (Sternberg Press, 2009) and is currently Professor at NABA (Nuova Academia di Belle Arti). Recent exhibitions include bau bau, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, IT (2015), Céline Condorelli, Chisenhale Gallery, UK, Positions, Van Abbemuseum, NL, and baubau, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, DE (all 2014), and curating Puppet Show, Eastside Projects (2013).

A large curtain wraps around seven framed photographs of an archive containing material on the textile industry. The archive displays fragments of colonial history, international trade, labour and militant politics, and with these the conditions of existence of the curtain. The latter was produced within the conditions opened up and portrayed in the photographs, and printed with an image assemblage of Egyptian cotton fields circa 1930, after the Egyptian cotton industry boomed and the plant became known as ‘the white gold of Egypt’.