Textile installation

Floating Carpet is a project initiated by Homa Arkani in close collaboration with manoeuvre. The project was inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Tower of Babel and poems by Rumi. This collective work of art came into existence through seven workshops at manoeuvre involving drawing with the subconscious mind, and the act of tufting. Where the subconscious can reach a connection beyond language, tufting was chosen for its stress-release capacity, letting go of tensions and anger caused by wars in home countries (as was the case for a lot of participants) or in daily life. “The whole universe and all the people are like a single body,” - Rumi Inspired by Rumi, Homa tries to bring people together and overcome the individual differences between us. Floating Carpet has two sides of which only one is colourful and the other side has various tones of blue which refers to water concept.

The list of participants who were involved in making the artworks:

Zahra Ashilli, Sepideh, Winde Nulens, Joost Vermeiren, Marleen Lievens, Eman Dawoud, Agnes Albert, Rony Codoychuran, Emma Tuominen, Gyulseren van Dort, Serpil Killic, Sultan Altintas, Rahime Koparan & manoeuvre, Voem vzw, Veggi Halal