An Architecture of Thread and Gesture observes architecture from a different perspective. Moving away from built materials, Ainslie Murray proposes a refreshing alternative: to map the human body’s articulation of space through movement with softer and finer materials.

In a series of created spaces, Ainslie unveils the hidden motions behind simple everyday activity, such as walking or the wave of a hand, ‘tracing’ these unseen actions with thread and light.

With meticulous detail and precision, Ainslie creates graceful lines of interaction between body and space, illustrating this with various methods such as stitching and perforation, embellished with the clever use of shadow and light.

An Architecture of Thread and Gesture aims to extend established connections between three-dimensional Japanese textile art and architectural space. The work will draw specifically on the ritual inhabitation of space, and on the themes of emptiness, absence and invisibility in Japanese art and architecture.