Sheila Furlan (*1974 in Rome) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe.
Sheila Furlan's objects, installations, and photographs emerge from a conceptual process. As a representative of modern textile art, she creates objects that play with space, time and levels of action. Her distinctive feature lies in the material she uses: transparent, fragile, yet robust silk, with which she exploits spatial, sculptural potential.The translucent silk offers glimpses into inaccessible interior spaces, creating a dialectical interplay between inside and outside, of space and volume. Using the thread-drawing technique she developed, she embroiders fragments of images and text into the fabric by hand.
