The tactile medium is making a big comeback in an era of digital everywhere

Chinese artist Hu Yuehua fills a Shanghai gallery with dense, floor-to-ceiling textile growth — cascading indigo and ochre fibers that blur the line between woven artifact and living organism, drawing on traditional dyeing techniques recast in an immersive, environment-scale installation. The work challenges the hierarchies between craft and fine art, inviting viewers to move through a space that feels more forest than gallery. Source: Colossal