Threads of Kinship: He Art Museum (HEM), Shunde, China, with KADIST

Building on its first iteration at KADIST Paris (October 2025–January 2026), this second iteration deepens the curatorial dialogue between He Art Museum and KADIST. The newly added works expand an exploration of the local legacy of Guangdong’s Self-Comb Sisters–women in the early 20th-century who chose to live and work collectively with silk production as a means to support their livelihood.

Structured around four interwoven curatorial strands the exhibition considers: the formation of female collectives and alternative kinship structures through the power of textiles and questions of body and belonging; how diasporic movement, and extractive and economic systems shape both artistic production and lived experience; the historical and contemporary entanglements between coding, weaving, and technological knowledge; and it looks toward speculative futures and mythologies that reimagine how communities might endure and transform.

The exhibition is curated by Shona Mei Findlay, Yuan Fuca, Marie Martraire (KADIST), and the HEM curatorial team