EXHIBITION STATEMENT

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Home is rarely a single place. It is assembled from objects kept, shows watched, gifts wrapped, and trinkets that couldn't be thrown away. Memory weaves into these things and much like fiber, it stretches and snags, crafting new environments. 

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This Must Be the Place brings together South Carolina textile artists Kristy Bishop, Devann Donovan, and Amanda Foshag, whose work treats fiber as a time capsule, preserving childhood moments and half-forgotten environments.

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Bishop weaves discarded ratchet straps salvaged from the Port of Charleston into intricate forms, setting the slow, deliberate pace of traditional craft against the relentless cycle of mass production and consumption. Her vibrant colors and patterns evoke both comfort and dread within a familiar landscape of consumerism, asking which objects we value, preserve, and leave behind.

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If Bishop questions what we keep, Donovan explores how we remember it. She draws on childhood nostalgia, pop culture, and novelty objects to turn personal memories into playful, interactive textile artifacts. Her work blurs the line between remembering and reinventing, questioning how familiar images and ordinary experiences grow exaggerated, romanticized, and distorted over time.

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Foshag grounds those memories in place. She gathers fibers and natural materials into tactile records of the landscapes that shaped her childhood. Through intuitive weaving and assemblage, her works become souvenirs of time and place, accumulations of material that hold traces of the past and evoke comfort and belonging.

Together, the artists reimagine ephemeral moments as textile forms, woven from personal anecdotes and defining experiences. The accumulation of memory and material constructs this place.

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