Fiberworks - A Celebration of South African
Fiber and Textile Artists

Title: Between You and Me - There is a mountain

Description: "By layering photographs and drawings of the surrounding environment, Lein Smuts create intricate compositions that reflect the complexity of our inner worlds. Each layer represents different facets of the subconscious and memory, revealing the depth and nuance of our emotional landscapes"

Title: Between You and Me - Interludes

Description: "In these works, Lein Smuts use landscapes as a metaphor to explore the dynamics of human relationships. The transfor mations and seasons in nature serve as powerful symbols for the evolving stages within our personal connections. Just as nature undergoes cycles of growth, decay, and renewal, so too do our relationships and the human psyche experience similar phases of change and self-healing."

Title: Rooted / Uprooted

Description: Rooted / Uprooted is a quiet meditation on belonging, memory, and the complexity of heritage in South Africa

Title: Between You and Me - Silences in between

Description: These works explore our shifting relationship with history-both personal and collective

Title: Intercession

Description: "Intercession" is a layered meditation on land, history, and spirituality, woven together through embroidery

Title: Pilgrim

Description: This piece is a fragile relic-an old, worn blanket made from recycled fibers, stitched and re-stitched, its unraveled threads bearing witness to time and wear. Every patch is a marker of healing, yet the fabric remains vul nerable, reminding us that wounds do not vanish; they are merely held together by care and persistence.

Title: Conciliate

Description: Conciliate is a deeply personal and spiritual process piece, dedicated to the artist"s mother, who passed away in 2017. This work is both a meditation and a reconciliation-a tactile space where grief, love, and memory intertwine

Lein Smuts