THE LOOM
KAPLANKAYA, TURKEY
MAY 13-17, 2026
A COLLECTIVE ACT OF WEAVING, THINKING, AND BECOMING
The Loom is conceived as a living structure — a space where individual thoughts, sensations, and reflections are translated into material form.
Throughout the event, participants are invited to respond to a series of questions inspired by the daily talks and shared moments. These responses are written onto textile fragments and gradually woven into the Loom, forming an evolving three-dimensional tapestry.
What emerges is not a fixed artwork, but a collective composition — a layered field of voices, emotions, and perspectives.
Rooted in one of humanity’s most ancient practices, weaving becomes a tool for connection. Threads intersect, overlap, and hold one another — much like ideas, memories, and human experiences.
Through this process, imagination is not only expressed, but embodied.
The Loom becomes a shared diary.
A tactile archive.
A space where the invisible takes form.
WHY THIS COLLABORATION
This project is the result of a long-standing creative dialogue between Regina Dejiménez and Milen Nae.
Since 2018, they have been collaborating across different formats, united by a shared interest in materiality, sensory experience, and collective creation. One of their most formative collaborations was a two-year textile workshop initiative they created in Barcelona, where they explored the transformative and social power of soft materials.
Through these workshops, working with communities to investigate how textile practices — stitching, weaving, assembling — can create spaces of calm, connection, and emotional expression. This experience deeply shaped their understanding of how making with the hands can influence both individual and collective states.
The Loom builds on this foundation.
It brings together Regina’s expertise in fiber art and material processes with Milen’s conceptual and spatial approach to experience design — creating a structure where people are not only observers, but active contributors.
At its core, this collaboration is about creating conditions for connection — through material, through ritual, and through shared imagination.
Regina Dejiménez is a multidisciplinary textile artist and creative director whose work explores the transformation of matter and the relationship between micro and macro systems. Through weaving, knitting, and experimental fiber techniques, she creates tactile and immersive environments that invite new forms of perception and connection.
REGINA DEJIMÉNEZ
Milen Nae is an installation artist and co-founder of NAE Design Studio, working at the intersection of art, space, and experience. Her practice focuses on creating immersive environments that bring people together through storytelling, material exploration, and collective participation. She is the Production Designer of Harvest 10.