Kaona Pongpipat writes: It's not an exaggeration to say that Jim Thompson Art Center's latest exhibition is a paradise of inspiration for those who are passionate about textiles. Curated by artist and textile expert Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, "mnemonikos: Art Of Memory In Contemporary Textiles" features works from 29 artists, Thai and international, who created their works through various techniques, from dyeing, painting, weaving, stitching, printing, laser etching to heat transfer and vacuum coating of metal onto fabric and more. .... Walking through the first entrance of a long, dimly-lit exhibition hall, the first prominent piece of work visitors will encounter is Rooibos Teabag Dress by Swiss artist Mascha Mioni. What's quite fascinating about it is not only how simple teabags can be made into such an elegant gown, but also the background story. Mioni used more than 5,000 teabags, collecting them when she was in South Africa. It is one of the works which most closely represents the concept of "mnemonikos" _ "remembering". ....

Link to on-line article in the Bangkok Post

Kethsirin Pholdhampalit writes in The Sunday Nation: Some of the world's best known textile designers and artists showcase their works in a new exhibition at Jim Thompson Art Centre

... Continuing until February next year, the exhibition "Mnemonikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textiles", which features 29 international artists from 11 countries, takes viewers down to the molecular level of textiles. Curated by Japanese textile expert Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, the works achieve a perfect integration between traditional crafts and modern chemistry.

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Swiss artist Mascha Mioni was inspired by her experience of living in South Africa to work with recycled material. Her art-to-wear dress "Rooibos Teabag Dress" is made entirely of recycled bags of the South African national tea rooibos (redbush). It's delicate, but absolutely wearable.

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The on-line version in The Sunday Nation

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Guest curator Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada opens the exhibition and presents some works - in the background Wax by Guo-xiang YUAN, on the left Rooibos Teabag Dress by Mascha Mioni

Link to the video on youtube

Editor-in-chief Beatrijs Sterk reviews the 4th Art to Wear book of Mascha Mioni's creations in the art magazine textile forum

"... In the introductory text the art-critic Marianne Mittelholzer emphasizes, that the art of Mascha Mioni consists of balancing the virtuosic mastery of technique and the inspired presentation of thoughts, feelings and visions."

textile forum 2/2012, S. 46