<html><body>For The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves, artist Ana Torfs created a monumental installation comprising 28 Jacquard-woven tapestries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Torfs collected brightly coloured autumn leaves on her walks. They reminded her of the Cumaean Sibyl in Virgil&rsquo;s Aeneid, the famous Latin epic in which the Sibyl wrote her prophecies on leaves. Torfs pressed the leaves between the pages of international newspapers, photographed the compositions and translated them into textiles. Each tapestry features a woven leaf above a newspaper article, accompanied by personal and poetic texts.</body></html>

<html><body>Although all 28 tapestries share the same layout, each required an individual approach. Torfs used lustrous cotton yarn to weave the leaves, while the newspaper articles were woven using organic cotton yarns with a matt finish. For each tapestry, she carefully determined the number of colours needed to reproduce the leaf and where additional contrast was required in the newspaper image. Within a strict compositional framework, this process created subtle variations and nuances across the series.
From 3 October 2025 to 30 August 2026, the work was exhibited in the historic galleries of the Paintings Gallery in Vienna, where the tapestries were displayed across four museum rooms.</body></html>

<html><body>Kunstenaar Ana Torfs realiseerde met &lsquo;The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves&rsquo; een monumentale installatie van 28 Jacquard-geweven&nbsp;wandkleden.&nbsp;Tijdens de&nbsp;covid-pandemie verzamelde Torfs tijdens haar wandelingen felgekleurde herfstbladeren. Dit deed haar denken aan de&nbsp;&lsquo;Cumae&iuml;sche&nbsp;Sibyl&nbsp;uit Vergilius&rsquo;&nbsp;Aeneis, het beroemde Latijnse epos waarin zij haar profetie&euml;n op bladeren schreef. Torfs droogde de bladeren tussen de pagina&rsquo;s van internationale kranten, fotografeerde de composities en vertaalde ze naar textiel. Elk wandkleed toont een geweven blad boven een krantenartikel, aangevuld met persoonlijke en po&euml;tische teksten.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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