The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles is on in Turkey, February 21 to July 7, 2019. The exhibition features works by international artists who use textiles to create aesthetic and cultural narratives through painting, photography, archive materials, objects, installations, and video works. It focuses on the historical, social and cultural meanings of fabrics, and investigates the various uses of textiles as a tool of expression.

Prior to this, the exhibition was held in Germany and Kuwait. It builds on the original selection by creating new connections in each institution it travels to, with the assistance of curators at each institution and the addition of new works from local artists.

The Event of a Thread demonstrates the variety of opportunities provided by textiles as a multifaceted tool of expression in addition to its purpose as a surface produced via the systematic integration of yarn layers, warps and wefts. Social, cultural and historical narratives are untied from threads of fabric and rearranged for to create new connections between them.

One of the special areas in the exhibition has been dedicated to Eyüboğlu, the first artist to develop a synthesis between painting and embroidery, textiles, and yazma traditions in Turkey.