Project: La Rueca “Forest Memory” (Textile Installation/Video Art)
Artists: Graciela Szamrey, Estela Agüero, Laura Briñón, Alicia Cardozo, Sandra , Patricia Farías, Estela Giletta, Laura González Stutz, Silvia Liberati, Eugenia Lozada, María Inés Márquez, Mirta Quiroga, Lucía Rivoira, Carmen Roca, Marta Ruffino, María Amalia , Mónica Tonelli and Patricia Uda
Curator: Pilar Tobón
Booth 111

La Rueca, the first textile art space in Córdoba, Argentina, was created in 1974 by visual artist Graciela Szamrey. Artists exhibited their work through thread, the umbilical cord that, since ancient times, reveals identity. With the strength generated by love of the work, the group deeply researches the possibilities of textile art; from flat weaving to the latest contemporary trends. Threads, textures, warp and weft cross… and each finds in the other the exact half of a whole.

“Forest Memory”
The devastation of forests in Argentina has social and environmental consequences of alarming scope. The awakening to such a local scenario led us to create this work, which, with the arrival of the pandemic, significantly broadened its meaning by connecting us with a global experience of destruction. Climate change and ecosystem degradation are some of the major aftermaths. The installation rehearses the scene of a forest in the process of fading to visualize and raise awareness about the environmental issue that affects the planet. The spectral weave of the absent forest is not only a trace that we record in memory and that saves us from the danger of oblivion but also a warning about the future that builds the ways of life of our civilizations.