Abstract
The article explores textiles as a medium of perceptual thinking through an analysis of the metaphors present in the artworks of contemporary Lithuanian artist Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė. This research is framed by the metatextile discourse, which reconceptualizes textiles and resonates with material turn focused on the agentic powers of matter. Within the article, various textile metaphors are discussed, highlighting the connections between textiles and concepts such as text, skin, body, memory, identity, past and present technologies, everyday life, and nature. Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė, in her visual work, challenges subject and object, nature and culture, and material and immaterial dualities. She animates flexible metaphors of cloth, folding, and the act of folding itself, contributing to new discourses for textiles and expanding the ontology of tissue to reflect our fluid identities and networked beings.
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