In parallel to Martínez’s solo exhibition, the gallery’s viewing room will bring together two textile practices that engage with natural fibres to explore material knowledge, community, and transmission. New works by Claudia Alarcón & Silät, developed during their recent residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (PAC), will be presented in the context of their current institutional exhibition, Living Weaving, at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Formed in 2023, the collective comprises over one hundred Wichí women weavers from Northern Argentina. Working with chaguar fibre, native to the region, their practice is rooted in ancestral knowledge...
In parallel to Martínez’s solo exhibition, the gallery’s viewing room will bring together two textile practices that engage with natural fibres to explore material knowledge, community, and transmission. New works by Claudia Alarcón & Silät, developed during their recent residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (PAC), will be presented in the context of their current institutional exhibition, Living Weaving, at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP).
Formed in 2023, the collective comprises over one hundred Wichí women weavers from Northern Argentina. Working with chaguar fibre, native to the region, their practice is rooted in ancestral knowledge while remaining open to continuous evolution. Expanding from the traditional yica bag and its geometric references to local flora and fauna, the group, under Alarcón’s leadership, has developed collaborative techniques that enable multiple hands to produce a single textile, foregrounding collective authorship.
These works will be shown in dialogue with Cheong See Min, a multidisciplinary artist working between Malaysia and Taiwan. Using pineapple leaf fibre, Min approaches weaving as a communicative act, exploring the relationship between human and tropical ecologies. Informed by her international residencies, her tactile, organic works form layered spatial environments that reflect on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life. Together, the presentations open a dialogue between painting and textile, tracing distinct, yet resonant, approaches to landscape and ecology across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
