NEW YORK, NY.- L’Space Gallery presents FIBRATION III: Anxiety and Hope, the third installment of its annual fiber art series, on view from September 4 to October 25, 2025. Curated by gallery director Lili Almog, the exhibition showcases sixteen contemporary artists working at the intersection of textile, storytelling, and resistance.


Halley Zien, Et Tu, Bubaloo? Oil collage and fabric on panel, 2025. 120 x 120 inches.

This third edition of Fibration centers on the emotional tension between upheaval and optimism, a timely reflection on a world shaped by war, migration, political rupture, and shifting identities. Subtitled Anxiety and Hope, the exhibition invites viewers into an immersive environment where softness collides with sharp critique, and threads become instruments of resistance. In a world increasingly defined by uncertainty and upheaval, Fibration III: Anxiety and Hope invites viewers to slow down, look closer, and feel deeply.


Mona Bozorgi Installation.

The annual Fibration exhibition turns its gaze toward the emotional turbulence of our time, centering fiber arts as a site of embodied resistance, resilience, and radical care. The show brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who use fiber not simply as a medium, but as a message. Textile practices such as quilting, weaving, and embroidery, once relegated to the domestic and dismissed as “women’s work,” are reimagined here as potent tools for personal storytelling, political critique, and collective healing. These artists challenge the long-standing divisions between "high art" and "craft," reclaiming softness as strength and tradition as innovation.


Kimberly English, Union of Carbon and Cerebrum, 2023, American salvedge denim, hand-dyed and hand-woven denim, 40 x 32 x 0.5 inches.

Fibration III: Anxiety and Hope is a timely and necessary intervention into how we understand the emotional and political potential of fiber art today. Through deeply personal, tactile, and transgressive approaches, these sixteen artists use thread as witness, cloth as resistance, and craft as care.

Artist Talk: Saturday, October 9th, from 6 -8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am–6 pm