Project in collaboration with photographer Ximena del Valle
Presented at: Centro Cultural Panteón
Textile Technique: Embroidery on photographic paper.
Video: José Pablo Escamilla
2018
“Weft is the culmination of a long creative process characterized by its interweaving. In the 20/21 pieces that make up this exhibition, the paths of two streams that once seemed to flow separately meet and blend. This exhibition brings together two visions, two expressions, two artists, two wills, two lives, two forms, and two different materialities that, when united, complement and expand the possibilities of their meaning. Through the intervention of embroidery on photography, the thread stitched over the image, the pieces of Weft overflow the material parameters that traditionally define both photography and textile art. By literally weaving the techniques of embroidery and photography; perforation and color, these pieces manage to establish communicative vessels whose novelty redefines them as vehicles of a new story that ceases to be about two artists and their individualities to evoke a greater meaning. This meaning is that of the figurative fabric that these works evoke and refer to. It is about the story of complex and multitudinous bodies that acquire new densities, forms, and textures, and whose novelty points to concrete possibilities of meaning: that empathy governs over ego and that the singularity of the imperfect form can refer to the entire universe.”
Adrián Espinoza Staines