Soft Curve, Hard Line

‘Soft Curve, Hard Line’ is an installation of ceramics and textiles by friends and artists Helen Kong and Amanda Rataj. It playfully explores how checks and grids contrast aesthetically and functionally for a pleasingly maximalist clash of pattern and shape.

By juxtaposing hand woven textiles and ceramic forms, each artist explores the visual language of checks, squares, and lines and how they converse, distort, and change between mediums. Presented together, these intersections create a visual contrast between hard and soft, hand drawn and precise, 3d and flat, square and curve. Through orderly and organic lines and shapes, this installation creates moments of harmony and disharmony, and gives us an excuse to use our favourite effect: checks on checks on checks!

‘Soft Curve, Hard Line’ is a window installation at Souk and Silk on Dundas Street West and is available to view from street level at any time. There are no artist talks or receptions for this installation.