This year, I took part in the 18th International Triennial of Tapestry at the Central Museum of Textiles – Centralne muzeum włokiennictwa. The museum was established on a former textile mill in 1960 (as the oldest textile museum) and holds the largest textile collection on the European continent. Exactly 50 years ago, the Triennial took place and it stands out as one of the longest-running events dedicated to the “art of weaving.”
I am pleased to be among the artists creating the 2025 edition, “Deconstructive Reconstruction,” curated by Marta Kowalewska and Bukola Oyebode-Westerhui.
The artist’s best-known project is Harmony—an urban art initiative inspired by lace-making traditions. Working with a restrained palette dominated by white, NeSpoon creates large-scale murals, illegal stencil graffiti, ephemeral site-specific installations, and a form she pioneered herself: ceramic objects known as “urban jewellery.” Through her practice, the artist searches for universal codes of beauty and harmony that are recognizable worldwide, thereby connecting people across cultural boundaries.
The Harmony project brings together centuries-old craft traditions with contemporary forms of expression. NeSpoon builds an intergenerational bridge of understanding and explores the extent to which street art can be transferred into the gallery space without losing its authenticity and credibility. Her practice examines the tension between the grassroots, spontaneous, and at times anarchic creativity of street art and the presentation of art within a formalized institutional context.
In the Urban Jewelry series, the artist employs traditional ceramic techniques to create labor-intensive, decorative ceramic objects impressed with lace patterns. Each object is produced in two identical editions. One—affixed somewhere in the street—enters the urban space, while the other becomes the core of an exhibit named after the location where its “twin” counterpart was installed. NeSpoon playfully describes these pairs as “quantum entangled.” If one listens closely with an attentive ear, it is said that the sounds of a distant metropolis can be heard.
