EVENTS

Latin American Art Pavilion (LAAP) has created the exhibition Between Art and Design and as a protagonist material, the textile, seen through the works of visual artists and craftswomen, to highlight the appropriation of the material, the conceptual proposal and the reception of the work in the viewer.

The visual artists using sewing, embroidery, fabric and drawing insert them as material in the work, enhancing the message and moving the viewer. The craftswomen, using twisted threads, knots, and macramé techniques, revitalize the craft with decorative and functional pieces of high design.

Visual artists such as Sheila Fraga, incorporates sewing as an expressive element with a strong heartbreaking message. Judit Vidal Faife and the use of charcoal and graphite appropriate embroidery to paint its textures and volumes in a realistic way. Analvis Somoza, using the quilting technique and incorporating materials from the manual craft, “paints” her themes of urban characters. Sol Villanueva, resorts to embroidery to capture unique works of ethnographic interest such as Mapuche textiles (native Indians living between Argentina and Chile) and Kogin, a traditional Japanese embroidery technique (northern Japan), or tropical fauna such as the Sunbird (Southeast Asia, Africa, northern Australia) to establish the presence and rescue of endemic cultures and bird species in danger of extinction. Monica Kline, who unravels the threads of the fabric into poetic compositions similar to Haikus. Priscila Schott who with the use of felt, repetitive form and volume creates dynamism and optical movement in two-dimensional works. Felisa Prieto elaborates as she puts it “from irreparable situations and physical appearances” sculptural works where the canvas is the protagonist to express concepts such as time, loss,
memory, change, mutation, life.

The Trama group, made up of the Chileans Veronica Sastre, Fernanda Iraguen and Jose Maria Suarez, submerge their search in remote techniques such as knotting and barreling from a design re-evaluated to current tastes, allowing to revitalize the textile craft trade with an aesthetic value of exquisite design, according to the contemporary lifestyle.

Between Art and Design, an exhibition of the work of eleven Latin American artists, who focus their works on the manipulation of textile, an appropriation of craft techniques adapted by the artists to their own creative languages.

Anaibis Yero

July 8th, 2023