The Dark Black of the Sky
2022-2024, Series of four pieces, textiles, various sewing techniques: loom weaving, hand-sewn fragments of women’s clothing, embroidery, fabric wrapping, crochet, and painting. Hand-painted canvas, poetic text, variable dimensions.
In 2022, the series The Dark Black of the Sky emerged, based on a case of femicide and rape in Chile. This event inspired a verse text that denounces violence and abuse against girls and women, which later became a performance presented in 2022 at the Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Cuenca, Ecuador, and in 2024 at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.
For the creation of this performance, a series of textile outfits were designed, made from used clothing and various manual textile techniques. Two of these pieces have phrases of denunciation inscribed on the front, from an intimate perspective, emanating from the experiences and marks of the body itself.
These phrases emerged from a conversation held in 2017 during a residency in Guayaquil with a group of older women. This instance became a common thread for the work, through testimonies about secrets, forgotten things, and hidden pains that seek to come to light, like fragments of the soul yearning to express themselves. Through spoken narrative, the aim is to make sense of the past and better understand the present; to create connections, where understanding that my pain is not only mine, but collective, part of a broader and more supportive network.
