Anna Fiedler works with weaving as both structure and metaphor. Her practice explores the body’s forms and constraints: the torso’s symmetry and suppleness, the daily acts of holding in and letting go. Through this lens, weaving becomes a way to think about tension and release, but also stability and collapse.
Her technique disrupts convention: she often paints warp threads before weaving in the weft, breaking the predictability of colour sequence while keeping to the discipline of loom-based construction. The result is a surface that bears both order and accident, with pattern emerging and dissolving. This method keeps each piece distinct, its outcome inseparable from the gestures of making.
The five works presented for aarticles are unique compositions shaped in dialogue with the founders, who collaborated with Fiedler on the selection of colours and forms. Sirens, Scanner, Highway, Water I Was Made For, and Under the Heart combine acrylic yarns, florist wire, and crimplene. Each object recalls a drawing held in suspension: line mapped across space, contour becoming volume.
Across her wider practice, Fiedler continues to explore weaving’s capacity to describe the body and its subconscious movements. What begins as textile shifts into sculpture, surface into anatomy. Each work is a one-off, bearing both the precision of craft and the unpredictability of lived gesture.
