Weaving Intentions

361 Main St., Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD. 20878 USA

November 11 - December 16, 2023

Artists

Weaving Intentions

“Arcalia, the great weaver of the mountains, wanted one day to weave a cloak to shelter her daughter, Esperanza, a tiny star that walked through the sky shimmering with cold”. Maria del Pilar Quintero

Weaving Intentions is an exhibition proposal that uses fashion as a vehicle of empowerment and denunciation. This project is deeply embedded in the context of current contemporary art, where the essence of manual creation and making and the transposition of everyday practices stand out as key to it. Thread and fabric claim and become a powerful mean of denunciation, giving fashion a social value and reminding us that “the personal is political.”

8 Artists from Latin America and Spain come together in a common discourse, each from their unique aesthetic perspective. Through their works, they challenge the viewer, confront them with themselves and encourage them to reflect on a wide range of topics, such as beauty canons, gender roles, climate change, migrations, marginalization, the relationship with nature, memory, and human introspection. Artists who examine everyday life from a political perspective, transforming private experience into a shared experience and giving it a social dimension.

Ana De Orbegoso, Annette Turrillo, Claudia Casarino, Claudia Rodriguez, Erika Harrsch, Erre, Hoesy Corona and Verónica Ruth Frías, work with different artistic techniques and in different formats; with diverse approaches, but forming a coherent whole with a solid narrative of raising a common voice. Installations, illustrations, multimedia, street art and other mixed techniques on various materials, underline the importance of the body-territory and the challenge to the viewer.

Art is always political and the key role of women and our indelible origins form this great blanket of hope with art as a tool.

Gabriela Rosso