ALLIAGES
Until Death Do Us Part Marcia Lima / Brazil
Brooch “Umbilical#60”, 2021
Brooch “Empty nest”, 2021
Paper porcelain, hemp thread, copper, stainless steel
Paper porcelain, hemp thread, copper thread, stainless steel
High temperature firing porcelain sewed at crochet made with hemp thread and copper thread
High temperature firing porcelain sewed at crochet made with hemp thread and copper thread
NOT FOR SALE
NOT FOR SALE
Necklace “Fertility - To bone To die”, 2021 paper-porcelain, hemp thread, copper thread High temperature firing porcelain, interlacing and crochet made with hemp thread and copper thread.
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Marcia Lima / Brazil The interweaving of the yarns and crochet gestures connect the essence of feelings and sensations. Repetitive movements sometimes lead her to a meditative state, sometimes to a state of reverie. Egg, symbol of fertility, birth, repository of new life and representative of the primitive embryonic form, emphasizes the ambivalence between fragility and resistance in the relationship between mother and child. Umbilical cord, in addition to being a nutritional messenger, is also responsible for the energetic connection and the transfer of the emotional charge between mother and baby. Parallel to the cord, there is a thread formed by an energy mesh called maternal bond, generated in pregnancy, and formed by the energy that emanates from the mother, directed to the child through the umbilical cord, that establishes a lifelong bond. When the cord is cut, a physical rupture occurs, but its energetic form lasts, until death do them apart...or does it last forever, despite the end of life?
ALLIAGES
Until Death Do Us Part Patricia Iglesias / Chile
Breastplate "Shukaku", 2020 Jute cord, cotton, linen and jute threads, acrylic wool, scraps of textile material, rubbish bags, leather, non-woven fabric, copper thread. Crochet weaving, Káweskar and Yagán basket weaving, sewing buttonhole stitch and embroidery.
Necklace "Aiken”, 2020 Hemp and jute cord, flat cotton cord, cotton, jute and linen threads, burlap fabric scraps, copper and steel needle. Crochet weaving, Kawéskar and Yagán basket weaving, eyelet stitch, hand dyeing, hammering, fire patina and metal bending.
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Brooch, "Chorlito" (Plover), 2020 Hemp and jute cord, flat cotton cord, cotton, jute and linen threads, burlap fabric scraps, copper and steel needle. Crochet weaving, Kawéskar and Yagán basket weaving, eyelet stitch, hand dyeing, hammering, fire patina and metal bending.
Patricia Iglesias / Chile Trying to imagine what fear looks like, I muddle, I squeeze, sometimes I suck the material, squeezing and forcing it. I want to unveil my fears, to know their truths and not hide them from myself, they say that in order to let go you have to know what you are holding on to. In the making of this piece I ask myself what are the limits of fear. Fear of the death of loved ones, fear that the death of my loved ones will separate us. I knit, link and stitch; protecting, repairing and rebuilding. While I weave I connect with my surroundings and the place I inhabit, I use materials that refer to remote times and ancestral cultures, those that travelled and inhabited the territory of South America with their own patterns. I do it slowly, as if I were not in this time, as if I were in a different time; point by point, stitch after stitch, I build spaces, bridges, connections and voids, like instants and pieces of history that we have yet to intertwine, as a metaphor for the evanescent.