Laurence Aëgerter

Arithmétique du Miracle

Belgian artist duo KRJST regularly experiments in the TextielLab with weaving techniques and materials. After graduating with master’s degrees from La Cambre Mode[s] in Brussels, Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx initially worked in the fashion industry. Since starting their own design studio in 2012, they have focused on woven and embroidered tapestries, often extensively finishing machine-made fabrics by hand.

In the TextielLab, they work with most of the product developers. They have developed their own painterly style of weaving and regularly use thick, twined yarns to create loose fabrics with lots of floats. Over the past year, KRJST has developed six different projects in the lab. Several of these were exhibited at Milan Design Week 2024. In April 2024, they also developed a large tapestry for Infinite trolling, an art project by the Belgian Congolese rapper, performer and artist Baloji.

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Tenture des Eléments: l’Ether

Laurence Aëgerter recently added a fifth tapestry to the acclaimed series ‘Tenture des Eléments: l’Eau, la Terre, le Feu et l’Air’. Louis XIV commissioned Charles Le Brun to make the original series in 1680 for the Manufacture des Gobelins tapestry factory. Aëgerter’s tapestry focuses on the fifth element, ether, which was a hot topic at the time. René Descartes, for example, in his ‘Principia Philosophia’ (1644), extensively drew and described the ether as a subtle matter consisting of tiny transparent spheres that fills the universe and enables the transfer of gravity and the propagation of light in space.

Aëgerter used an illustration of Descartes’ ether vortices and added a selection of elements from the original 17th-century tapestries. With product developer Stef Miero, she developed her ‘Tenture des Eléments: l’Ether’, a jacquard-woven tapestry measuring 330 x 606 cm made on the TextielLab’s wide loom. The garlands around the edges feature attributes from each of the four historical ‘tentures’. They are hollowed out so that Descartes’ ether surrounds them. The addition of gold and copper-coloured lurex and phosphorescent yarns makes the ether visible in the dark. The tapestry will be displayed in the Grote Kerk Breda from October to December 2025.

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Nec Me Fulgura

Belgian artist duo KRJST regularly experiments in the TextielLab with weaving techniques and materials. After graduating with master’s degrees from La Cambre Mode[s] in Brussels, Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx initially worked in the fashion industry. Since starting their own design studio in 2012, they have focused on woven and embroidered tapestries, often extensively finishing machine-made fabrics by hand.

In the TextielLab, they work with most of the product developers. They have developed their own painterly style of weaving and regularly use thick, twined yarns to create loose fabrics with lots of floats. Over the past year, KRJST has developed six different projects in the lab. Several of these were exhibited at Milan Design Week 2024. In April 2024, they also developed a large tapestry for Infinite trolling, an art project by the Belgian Congolese rapper, performer and artist Baloji.