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ALIKI VAN DER KRUIJS & JOS KLARENBEEK
In their own ways, Aliki and Jos had been compiling environmental and
textile data for years before meeting each other.
Aliki developed an archive of textiles Made by Rain featuring patterns produced with the
help of pluvial conditions. More often she fabricated a series of textiles using the atmosphere and contextual research as input for colour and material collections. During a residency
at Arita, in Japan, she used the Made by Rain approach to stabilise the collection of
live raindrops in order to shape the glazing of porcelain plates.
A mathematician with a multidisciplinary approach to creating objects, Jos had been gathering planetary data sets from NASA and the European Space Agency as a way to make custom maps for his research projects —from the dairy production chain to global temperature charts. As he was looking into ways of making the data tangible and more accessible to a non-specialised audience, he saw potential in the black-and-white diagrams of weaving codes: a piece of fabric was, in his eyes, a physical matrix of zeroes and ones.
