Jennifer Coghill   
Textile Art

Café Curtains consists of seven hanging panels made from used tea bags, coffee filters and coffee packaging; cast-off materials that are typically considered garbage. It echoes the curtains of Viennese coffee houses in the 1800s, where intellectuals congregated, and radical ideas fomented. These cafés often hung lace curtains halfway down the window frame allowing some intimacy and privacy, while still allowing sunlight to enter.

​

This re-interpretation elevates the humble origins of these unusual materials, as they are given an unexpected new existence. Café Curtains suggests a new kind of radicalism in our “throw-away” culture, challenging conventional notions of beauty and value, prompting viewers to reimagine the rituals of consumption and waste.

​