United Colors of Timor-leste
180 x 50 x 40 cm, © 2023,
price on request
Three-dimensional | Sculpture | Textile
Installation view where you see Manatutu Tais (Idate Language group) on the left and Viqueque Tais on the right (Tetun Terik langua group), where the piece of textile needed for the suit are filled with black textile. On the back you see Liquisa Tais (Tokedede Language group ), Cova-Lima (back right, Tetun Tarik language group) and crocodile motive from Oecusse district (Baikeno language group).
Art Installation “UNITED COLORS OF TIMOR-LESTE| Prototype 001”, consisting of 18 strictlu women handwoven textiles (Tais Mane Traditional / Male tais (cultural Timorese taxtile) connected to Timor-Leste 14 districts and 12 language groups (from 29 existing), who (the 18 handwoven textiles) where used for the tipical man politician dresscode these days worldwide, the bussnisness suit. Hence the bussniess suit is made out of 18 diffrent pieces of textile from the districts and language groups from Timor-Leste as a representation of the country as a whole.