“Women
Weavers: the Warp of Memory” view exhibition
Photo
courtesy Aluna Art Foundation /Facebook
Miami, September, 2018. TBBox
Art/Ideobox ArtSpace presents Women Weavers: The Warp of Memory, curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective. The exhibition reunites
artists from the Americas, from
Argentina to the state
of Hawaii with artworks
created in a period spanning
from 1973 to 2018. The display contains
pieces by pioneers with dazzling and continuous trajectories like Olga de Amaral (Colombia, 1932), and Stella
Bernal de Parra (Colombia, 1932), a rediscovered artist who made enormous fiber sculptures and abstract three-‐dimensional tapestries exploring cosmic geometry and who should
be reinserted in the art
history of textile
art. Women Weavers: The Warp of Memory, produced with
the collaboration of Aluna Art Foundation, will
be on view at 2417
North Miami Ave,
Miami, Wynwood, from
September 14th through
November 2nd, 2018.
The exhibition also includes one of the first pieces
of "Woven Conversations" by Colombian artist
María Angélica Medina
(France, 1939), whose
contribution was vital for conceptualism and
non-‐objectual art
in her country, in addition to the
Chilean pioneer Cecilia
Vicuña (Chile, 1944)
—a textual and weaving poet
whose work contains the spirit of the offering, reverence for nature, and pre-‐hispanic memory. Alongside with them, there are artists in various stages
of their practice
who have experienced varying career paths. The interruption or delay of their
trajectories in certain
cases, does not invalidate the strength of the works,
which when woven
together in the same space truly create
an extraordinary multigenerational conversation. Some of the artworks are open to be freely transformed in their
display. Such is the case with Medina's woven pita fiber
piece; with the Venezuelan
Suzanne Noujaim’s fabrics,
which recreate everything from landscapes to political situations and can be worn or hung; and with the
small carpets of irregular shapes
in which the Brazilian artist
Karla Caprali weaves
imaginary places.
What these artists have
in common is the use of textile
fibers in artworks that connect us with spaces
of a common memory. Some of them work with used materials: Rachel Schwartz uses
hundreds of music
tapes to create
a magnificent flexible and dark
tapestry; Agustina Woodgate
makes abstract rugs with discarded stuffed toys, while Sylvia Denburg
weaves maps with
the traditional ‘huipiles’ left behind by the native
women of Guatemala.
“Women Weavers: the Warp of Memory” view exhibition
Photo courtesy Aluna Art Foundation /Facebook
This connection with nature and
the pre-‐Hispanic
past
is shared
by various artists:
Sandra de
Berduccy,
for instance, combines
iconographies and ancestral weaving techniques with sophisticated lighting
technology. Peruvian Cecilia Paredes
stiches in a golden tapestry the chrysalides abandoned by butterflies, and explores the survival strategy of camouflage with a performance in which her
body is hidden
behind the fabrics.
Akiko Jackson, born and raised
in Hawaii, creates
vast installations with
a long, black
hair braid that
she transforms in situ, expressing her ethnic heritage. Frida Baranek evokes the hammocks of Pre-‐Hispanic America and of Native Brazilian people in a metallic
installation as part of her practice of recreating common
objects so that they no longer have any functionality, but that now contain new vital understandings.
“Women Weavers: the Warp of Memory” view exhibition
Photo courtesy Aluna Art Foundation /Facebook
The ocean and all the life
contained within it,
is omnipresent in the textiles
and sculptures of American artist
Mira Lehr, who for
more than 70 years has seen the tides gradually increasing from her shoreline house
in Miami Beach. Marcela Marcuzzi, Mabel Poblet,
Elysia Mann, Marina
Font and Norah
Hernández present pieces
embroidered in paper to cosmic installations made with cotton;
words written in fabrics of disintegrated textiles; collages with
embroidered photographs or illustrated dresses. They all speak
of the fragility and power
of life. Their
artworks span from the cellular universes to all that
could be weaved
or stretched atop
the images of the feminine
body. In any case, we are in front of art pieces
which are touching because they are
connected to the artists´ own biographies, and no less to the history: of the continent, women, art, and the socio-‐ecological thought. These are pieces which
strengthen the interweaving of the common
memory.
“Women Weavers: the Warp of Memory” view exhibition
Photo courtesy Aluna Art Foundation /Facebook
In ancient Andean mythology, where messages were transmitted through
textiles and history
itself was sewn, there was
a belief that upon death
the souls embarked on a journey
until they reached
a place where
the wind blew strong in between hills.
As such, people’s lives and works
acquired the form
of a fabric, and only
those which were strongly
woven could resist
the wind.
The exhibition
“Women Weavers: the Warp of Memory” runs through November 2, 2018 at Ideobox
Art Space , 2417 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127, EE. UU. Information: 1
305-576-9878
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