Elke Hülse
Thin Skin 2, 2020
100 cm x 100 cm

Elke Hülse
Thin Skin 3, 2020
100 cm x 100 cm

Elke Hülse’s Artist Statement

What do faces reveal? The silence of the faces reveals the absence of what the words might say. The expression of the faces celebrates their origin, identity, culture and history. In tapestry, the warp is the bar code that reveals the shapes and colors of the cartoon between its threads. In the execution of the weft, the selected materials and the techniques used reveal the history of the weaver.

Elke Hülse
Silent Testimonies III, 2022
92 cm x 92 cm

Elke Hülse’s Biography

I was born in 1961 in Blumenau, Brazil. I graduated in Visual Arts, in 1983 and my Master’s in Art History, in 2009. My first contact with tapestry technique was on a high loom at Ernesto Aroztegui’s workshop in 1982. I participated at Jean Pierre Larochette’s workshop in Florianópolis, Brazil, 1995/96. I took part at Sarah Swett and Larochette’s workshop in El Tuito, Mexico in 2011 and another meeting in El Tuito in 2013. I have a tapestry group, As Catarinas, for about 18 years and I currently mentor students online.