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Contribution to ‘VI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA-Air’, 26th May 2011 – 22nd July 2011

Burton’s installation artwork 'Embodied Arising from the Soul' has qualities of fragility, delicacy, and the diaphanous. It is created from layers of nonwoven fabric. Burton uses simple light substrates to reference the body in shape, although the ’garment’ is visibly empty, like a shell. The work is suspended from the ceiling to suggest weightlessness (although still tethered to the ground), its lack of substance echoing the theme of the exhibition by representing the floating impermanence of the body incarnate. The work began as a series of technical explorations that are still current in later research where he explores themes of impermanence in works that are, due to their material quality, delicate, brittle and frail. The VI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA-Air took place in three cities of Mexico. 'Embodied: Arising from the Soul' was selected for the Salon for Large Format Textile Art by the international jury of peers: Alfredo Torres, Androna Linartas and Lee Armstrong Talbot. The show was organised and curated by Georgina Toussaint, co-ordinator of Mexico City VI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Mexico. Other internationally-recognised participants included Alberto Valenzuela Hernandez (Veracruz), Goro Nagano (Japan), Isabel Polikowski Ditone (Argentina), Josep Grau Garriga (Spain), Martie Zelt (USA), Pilar Tobin (Colombia) and Renato Pera (Brazil).