Texere
Texere, installation (2019). Wooden distaff 1,20 X 50 cm, geared motor that activates movement and rubber band printed with miniatures of film stills: The Exit from the Factory (Lumière Brothers) and The Man in the Camera (Dziga Vertov).
Texere, installation (2019). Wood table 2,40 x 1,20 cm with 280 hands made of beeswax and paraffin.
Texere, Video installation (2019). (distaff detail)
Texere, is the result of a reflection between fabric and affections, what is felt and being touched, analogies between fabric and skin, the passage from warm, manual and corporeal contact to cold and mechanical industrial production. The work establishes an analogy that goes from serial reproduction to the notion of repetition and difference in sculpture. From the difference between the unitary and the serial reproduction.
With beeswax, I repeated the mold of my right hand and of garment workers who have suffered hand injuries, this repetition reiterates five constant movements when manipulating textiles: manipulating the computer mouse to pattern, passing the hand over a fabric, taking the needle with the thumb and forefinger, pressing the fabric with the five fingers, taking the scissors with the hand to cut. From this excessive repetition, an affectation in the hands of the workers develops, which leads to various pathologies.
The work Las hilanderas or La fábula de Aracne, by Diego Velázquez (1655) brought to my mind a link between the myth and the artisanal and domestic work of the distaff. In the background of the work is a hand-embroidered tapestry with the myth The Rape of Europa. From Las hilanderas, I took the three spatial planes of Velázquez's work and transposed them to three temporal planes: an artisanal time, an industrial time and a mythological time. The artifact of the distaff evoked formal and processual similarities with early cinematographic devices, which led me to review the history of cinema within fashion and fashion within cinema, both temporally parallel industries.
Texere, video installation (2019). Dress in silk with silk worm eggs, (120 x 50 cm).
Texere, Video installation (2019). vertebral column in mud and beeswax, 78 cm x 15 cm
Texere, video Installation (2019). Sculpture in latex gloves, pot with pigment. Upper grip system with butcher's hook and cow whip. Pulley that activates the movement of the piece until it is immersed in the pigment and rises again. 2.50 x 60 cm.
Museo Artes Plásticas Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano Bogotá.