The artist duo EJTECH – Judit Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre – explores the permeability between sound, textile material, and movement. With their installation titled Split Weft, they make their debut in the acb Gallery’s newest exhibition space, the Imre Bak Space, which functions not only as a new venue but also as a conceptual platform for experimental contemporary art.
The title of the exhibition – Split Weft – refers to a fundamental concept in textile art and industry: the weft, the set of threads that run perpendicular to the warp threads in woven fabrics. The artists deconstruct and reinterpret this structural motif, translating it into their techno-spiritual visual language.
At the center of the space hangs a silk drapery from which the artists have manually unpicked the warp threads along the middle section. This meticulous, meditative act is not merely a formal intervention: the gesture of unraveling becomes a material decon- struction, generating new sensorial and conceptual experiences. These extracted threads are set in motion by an experimental sound composition, animating both the textile and the space – the fabric begins to pulse and resonate, transforming into waves of sound itself.
Here, the unwoven textile, with its fuzzy, non-permanent state, alludes to the quantum wave function – all paths considered, all possibilities coexisting in superposition. Like Schrödinger’s cat being both alive and dead, the textile becomes a metaphor for indeterminacy: an entangled field of potential where reality has not yet collapsed into a fixed outcome. The sound vibrations act as invisible forces of entanglement, weaving together space, matter, and perception into a shared quantum choreography.
In contrast to the kinetic installation, a print created with an unconventional heat-transfer technique captures a single frozen moment of the textile’s movement. This print is the wave function collapse: the solidification of possibility into actuality, the observer effect in the double slit experiment where observation itself determines the final state of reality. It is Schrödinger on Christmas morning – the unveiling of a definitive outcome from infinite potential.
Split Weft is not only a contemporary textile art experiment but also a meditation on the potential cultural impacts of quantum metaphysics. The work conjures the hard facts of unfolding quantic enlightenment, undermining classical notions of reality by exposing its entangled, observer-dependent nature. It embodies EJTECH’s radical techno-spiritualist aesthetics: an approach that envisions installations, sound systems, and soft interfaces as tools – not merely devices to be operated but as experiential instruments, like a crater near the coastline to observe the celestial vault. They are portals to incite individual processes, to bridge or blur the divide between object and subject, inviting the spectator to engage with the work as a tool for perception and inner unfolding.

Simultaneously, the piece is a subtle homage to the legacy of historical neo-avant-garde art. The work of EJTECH resonates deeply with the artistic dialogue that acb Gallery and the acb ResearchLab have long pursued – a recontextualisation of experimental textile practices and their generational relevance, both in and beyond their Eastern European context.