English - Tania Ausecha

My plastic work reflects the conflicts between nature and culture in the transition from rural to urban and from artisanal to industrial. I am interested in addressing how these conflicts affect women's bodies and their ways of perceiving the passage of time through various practices related to weaving and ways of using clothing amid the transformations that go from the vernacular, typical of ancestral cultures to modernity in Colombia. 

The work explores stories, myths, and practices of minority groups. From them, I build multimedia installations in them are arranged: audio narrations, video, and sculptures, made with natural materials such as mud, water, or artifacts such as wooden distaff, pulleys, containers, the movement and speed of some of them are altered through mechanical motors. On the other hand, these pieces contrast with video images of industrial work processes. The work invites us to think about the acceleration and operationalization of the body in modernity. For example, I made replicas of hands of garment makers injured in the textile industry made of beeswax, which are mixed with artificial materials such as paraffin. Each hand is serialized and multiplied industrially from a pattern.  

From the reflection on the technification of human life emerges what the body cannot resist, the pathological. That which exceeds homogenization, a quality that reminds us of what is vital and mortal in the body: its fragility.