Exhibition title: Basket genealogy

San Fernando City Museum, San Fernando. Buenos Aires, Argentina

May 2021.

 

Forms and designs inspired by the ceramics and textiles of indigenous cultures of America coexist with industrial forms such as rubber bellows and pipe connections. The pieces are woven in wicker (Salix viminalis) and phormium (Phormium tenax). The natural fibres were imported from Europe and New Zealand to the Delta of the Paraná River at the end of the 19th century to encourage agricultural and textile activity on the islands. Both productions were later abandoned and the factories that processed the fibers for the textile industry closed with the implementation of neoliberalism in the country during the 1990s. 

 

I explore forms of different modes of production (artisanal and industrial) with creole fibers and indigenous designs to generate links between a past and a present and to investigate the multiple origins of our Latin American identity and the consequences that political and economic processes have on the development of trades and in the construction of our symbolic capital.