Unravel
Talia Levitt and Kierren Karritpul
November 11–December 7, 2025
chi K11 art museum, Shanghai
chi K11 art museum is pleased to present Unravel, a two person exhibition that brings together Talia Levitt and Kierren Karritpul, artists whose textile imagery reflects memory, identity, and embodied knowledge.
Inspired by her grandmother’s garment work and childhood sewing lessons, Levitt creates vibrant paintings that appear as narrative quilts but reveal intricately painted scenes. Her meticulous trompe l’oeil mimics fabric, embroidery, and sequins, connecting personal memory to universal rituals of mending and making. Karritpul, a Ngen’giwumirri artist from Australia’s Northern Territory, translates weaving’s sacred rhythms into painted compositions. Though community practice reserves weaving for women, he positions himself as a “weaver of stories,” mapping spiritual and physical landscapes through traditional knowledge.
The title suggests both cultural construction, threads forming meaning, and unraveling what’s fixed to reveal hidden significance. Both artists use textile imagery to articulate care, resistance, and continuity, transforming weaving into a guide for navigating inherited systems. The exhibition reveals not merely the work itself, but the artists’ inner terrain: their inheritances, labors, and quiet insistence threading through canvas and consciousness.
