Magdalena Abakanowicz’s exhibition We Are Fibrous Structures marks the naming of the University of the Arts Poznań (Poland) after the artist. For twenty-five years Magdalena Abakanowicz was a faculty member of the Poznań State School of Fine Arts.

The motto of the show, We Are Fibrous Structures, is a quote from Magdalena Abakanowicz’s 1978 lecture at the Fiberworks symposium at Berkeley. The artist saw the endless potential of fibre, until then treated in a purely utilitarian fashion. For her, fibre was the basic component of the organic world, the building block of all living organisms, plants, tissues, leaves, and the human body.