Reweaving Ourselves
Reweaving Ourselves is a research project that aims to reestablish the link with textiles by valorizing and humanizing
the weaver-material relationship, as a way of resisting the dichotomy between time and production in industrialized
societies. The connection of weaving with nature is strongly rooted in indigenous traditions of the Global South, but
more recently also with industry. Following this path, this project aims to bring forward an intimate and sensorial
relationship to textile materiality and through this a decolonial understanding of art and ecology.
Reweaving Ourselves involves creating a series of works that relate to the mummification of fruits and vegetables, as
an act of conservation and care of life itself, with a recognition of human dependence on nature. For this cotton is
used for weaving covers and the decomposition of the living body is assisted. The mummified objects tell a particular
story, the cycle of life and death, and how to care for a “living sculpture”.
The research on this liminal space between life and death, the constant mutation of living organisms, that defy the
impermanent, forms the core of this project. It questions how organic material nevertheless can be sustained over
time, looks for concepts of permanence in this delicate state of interdependence and creates new understanding
through material and social research on textile techniques and histories and offers thus alternative ways of socializing
art towards environmental awareness and ecological thinking.
Results
of my sculptures, with a variety of elements, materiality’s, colors, sizes, and forms.
2- Parallel to the production of work document via text and images the different stages of the process, from the
date of the start and keeping track of the decomposition, measuring time and evolution of each sculpture.
3- For each object/sculpture I will build a container box for storage and preservation. As each fruit and vegetable
has a different curve of decomposition, which also depends on the season and weather conditions.
4- Activating the Eco Lab of the Art & Ecology research group at the Royal Academy by monitoring the
mummification process of fruits and vegetables. This process can be part of a masterclass or workshop open
to students/researchers/staff/teachers of the academy.
5- Once the works are in a stable mummification stage organize a series of public events in which they can be
activated, used in social interactions in which orality and tactility become the motor of knowledge exchange.
These events will count with the participation of Carolina Arévalo (online or in person), and Isabelle Stengers
6- With collected documentation design and print a publication that shows the process, in collaboration with
designer Felipe Mujica.
7- Collaboration with a biologist from the Academy, to help record the mummification process with a
complementary scientific angle.
8- Circulate in different spaces in North and South America, as well as Europe.
9- In collaboration with Carolina Arévalo, who is a current Art History PhD candidate at Columbia University, New
York, I am developing an exhibition project with a place to be determined, to happen in 2026.
10- For the end of 2026, I have scheduled a solo exhibition at Die Ecke Arte Contemporano in Santiago de Chile,
where I plan to exhibit the results of my research, as well as the process via the launch of the publication.
