Embroidery, tufting, weaving – Claudia Schwarz uses traditional textile techniques to transform used fabrics, paper, and yarn into complex, relief-like pictorial spaces. Her works grow across canvases and paper – inspired by organic forms and structures .

 

The starting point is the close connection to nature. Especially the process of decomposition – that moment when forms weather, dissolve, and yet unfold a fragile beauty. This contrasts with the linear way of life of humankind: materials are produced and all too often end up as permanent waste.

 

What appears fragile is meticulously crafted: each weave tells a story of connection, destruction, and transformation. The combination of different materials creates new relationships. They remain in a cycle, finding new beauty in altered form.

 

As a trained fashion designer, Schwarz consciously turns her back on the fast-fashion industry – and uses needle, thread, and artistic reflection to create new, critical forms of textiles. This results in mixed-media artworks with textiles and paper, as well as textile products of applied art.