ZT Tosha
Portfolio — Selected Works 2024–2026
ZT Tosha builds suspended structures from black fabric, cable, and steel. Each piece is made for a particular room — the windows, walls, and ceiling height decide its final shape. Visitors walk through or stand inside the work rather than viewing it from a distance.
The work began at home. Older Amsterdam houses like his own often have tall windows fitted with two curtain rails — a heavy outer layer to block cold and light, and a sheer inner layer to soften daylight during the day. Years of living with that arrangement, gathering and releasing the fabric by hand, became the starting point for the suspended works shown here.
Works
11 selected
After Melencolia
Natural light only
Black voile hangs from a steel armature positioned against a window. Natural light passes through the fabric and loses its direction. Inside the suspended volume, three lacquered spheres descend in scale from floor toward ceiling — the largest below, the smallest above. The eye reads depth that is not there. The spheres absorb light completely. Nothing reflects. The work requires only a window and what comes through it.
Dormant
Black linen hangs from a single cable, gathered at one end, falling the rest of the way to the floor in folds. The fabric does not strain against the line — it rests on it, the way a body rests in sleep. The frayed edges trail loosely on the ground. The piece is not still in the way an object is still. It is dormant — present in the room, but absent from it. Only memory moves here, the way memory moves during sleep.
Vertical Tension
Realisation VI
Sheer black mesh is pulled upward along a vertical steel rod by a web of thin cables, then pools loosely onto a white platform below. Lighter and more transparent than the other works, it shows the rigging clearly through the fabric rather than hiding it underneath.
Collapse I
Fabric suspended from the ceiling, gathered at the bottom into a knot. Shown next to Spread II — same hanging method, opposite shape: one closes in, the other opens out.
Spread II
Fabric suspended from a central point and two side cables, spreading open like wings. Shown next to Collapse I, which uses the same method to close inward instead.
Convergence
Three rounded fabric forms pushed together at a central point, like fingers pressed into dough. The folds and creases show where the material is under the most strain.
Burden of Memory
Two standing columns connected by a fabric tube that sags under its own weight, like an arch that has started to give way.
Language
A dense, twisting solid form, caught between motion and stillness. The only resin sculpture in this group — fixed and self-contained, in contrast to the suspended fabric works around it.
Strata
Flat, stacked layers of fabric sit on top of a loose, crumpled base — neat folds balanced on a messy foundation.
Junction
Two cylindrical forms pushed out from a single, tightly compressed base. The point where they meet looks placed under more pressure than anywhere else on the piece.
Wingspan IV
Heavy black fabric stretched out along a steel axis, anchored at the centre and falling away on either side. Up close it reads almost flat — a wide, dark plane that blocks rather than reveals the wall behind it.
