Qualeasha Wood's a flaw in my code (2025) and Dirt Off Your Shoulder Jay Z (2023) are included in Queer Texture at Primary, Nottingham.
Newly commissioned works by British artist Raisa Kabir and Swedish Eritrean duo Amina Seid Tahir and Adam Seid Tahir are shown alongside tapestries by American artist Qualeasha Wood. Together, these works form a shifting field of matter and meaning—sculptures and installations that resist fixed orientation, images that stretch and glitch.
The show is curated by a neurodivergent curator, Jade Foster, who asks: Is there such a thing as queer textility? This enquiry partly arises from their research into global textile histories, including the ancient textile cultures of the Andes, and from the academic work of Dr Aristoteles Barcelos Neto on the woven baskets of the Wauja people of Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. Their baskets depict the Arakuni, a snake-like cosmological figure, whose winding form echoes the lateral motion of weaving itself—thread crossing warp, movement binding life to material.
Texture here also resonates beyond the tactile. Borrowed from dance, a texture refers to the feel, look and quality of movement. In music, texture names how layers coexist: monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic, and unison. These structures of sound mirror the logic of cloth. Strands diverge, overlap, move together or apart.
