2022 MAVI UC
Installation views, embroidery workshop, and opening of ¿En qué estabas pensando, en el pasado o en el futuro?
Solo show, MAVI UC, Santiago de Chile
August 11 – November 6, 2022
Embroidery and production workshop at Galería 420, Fundación Mustakis, Recoleta, Santiago de Chile
July 4 – August 3, 2022
Photo credits> Installation views: Jorge Brantmayer and Felipe Mujica / Workshop: Carolina Urzúa and Felipe Mujica / Opening: Daniela Salinas
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Curtains is a body of textile work that Felipe Mujica began sixteen years ago, always with the assistance of seamstresses and embroiderers. Initially, the projects were small or medium scale, so they were produced in the artist’s house or in the manufacturer’s house, in a domestic space. With the passing of time, the scale increased and so the working method grew: collaboration and learning were forged as situations of knowledge exchange.
The common thread and starting point of each project is geometric abstraction, projecting and extrapolating the formal towards the social, drawing towards space, and concrete towards the soft. The curtains are temporary and permeable architecture, they are interactive both with the public and with the space itself, turning slightly with the air circulation, always in movement, and always open to receiving information and sharing it. Each curtain is literally and metaphorically a surface where different kinds of knowledge and interests meet, dialogue, and collide, creating something new that both sides could not have achieved on their own. The suspended curtains rearticulate the space and install us–as bodies, as observers–within the three-dimensional composition of planes and lines in space.
The Curtains exhibited here were manufactured during July at Gallery 420 / Mustakis Foundation, in Recoleta, in the context of an open embroidery and work production workshop. The community workspace was also a meeting point between people with different levels of textile experience, between residents of Recoleta and people from other districts, of different ages and socioeconomic situations, with diverse life experiences. The workshop sought to be a process of horizontal production, collective work, and self-education; with participants guiding each other, expanding and extrapolating embroidery to a new scale.
The embroidery workshop had two levels of difficulty: chain stitch for beginners and Smock or “Nido de abeja” stitch for experienced ones. In charge of teaching this last technique was Myriam Luz Díaz, an embroiderer from Huechuraba – a neighborhood branch that emerged from the Conchalí embroiderers – whose family has been dedicated to embroidery and making traditional dresses since 1980. With the assistance of her sisters Ximena and Ana María, part of the exhibited work was fabricated at home, and with these two gestures, the workshop, and family-business work, Mujica seeks to incorporate this specific tradition and economy from the north of Santiago into the Cortinas project.
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List of participants of the embroidery and production workshop at Galería 420, Fundación Mustakis: Ignacia Nuñez, Patricio Mano de chef, Victoria Lemus, Carmen Rojas, Rosa Bravo, Violeta Riveros, Silvia Vargas, Magali Oliva, Yolanda Sauré, Mercedes Carrera, Beatriz Salinas, Rosana Aguirre, Brika Olivos, Patricia Hormazabal, Carmen Julia Torres, Gloria Gutierrez, Carolina Nuñez, Natalia Hurtado, Barbara Rodriguez, Eugenio Gómez, Carolina Urzúa, Rosa Ruiz, Romina Bello, Virginia Donoso, Magdalena Muñoz, Silvana Márquez, Elena Nuñez, María Eugenia Cano, Amanada Nadeau, Magdalena Araya, Valentina Nadeau, Ema Mujica, Sofia Pucher, Angelica Gellona, Bruno Matus, Daniela Salinas, Jacqueline Gajardo, Jessica Tirado, María Virginia Pumao, Antonia Monreal, Exmelina Díaz, Ximena Gallardo, Nolbis Nuñez, Magdalena Nuñez, Pedro Albertini, Alicia Cañete, Valeria Avalos, Claudio Pérez, Fernanda Pardo, Manuel Rojo, Amanda Rojo, Paz González, Paola Fernández, Mayerli Salvo, Mateo Salvo, Sofia Bucher, Florencia Izquierdo, Jeanpiere Araya, Matías Bustamante, Davis Torres, Fernando Bustamante, Amiyana Silva, Jazmín Torres, Neymar Huaino, Neidar Torres, Leonardo Torres, Jean Paul Shapiano, Cristel Ortega, Ignacia Arce, Maite Arce, Elyan Ortega, Fabio Ossandón, Isidora Lucero, Victor Manriquez, Thomas Quiroga, Alondra Shapiano, María Ignacia Piallet, Amelia Pastene, Trinidad Quintanilla, Rafael Nuñez, Milan Alagao, Romina Millar, Agustina Paulsen, Flora Vilches, Mateo Alarcón, Patricia Ruiz, Carolina Mayer, Florencia Varela, Lorenzo Galindo, Ricardo Veliz, Patricia Fernández, Yolanda Cornejo, Emelina Díaz, Rosita Ruiz, Carolina Wilson, Benedicta Silva, Cristian Guevara, Alejandro Tagnarelli, Gloria Palma, Patricio Hermosilla, Mara Faundez, Cristian Guevara, Lourdes Candia, Vicenta Larraín, Rocio Inostroza, Josh Silva, Ignacio Navarrete, Clara Fermandois, Juany Olave, Nico Depontet, Analya Céspedes, Francisca Prat, Camila Bianchi, María Ferrer, Mayte Izquierdo, Carolina Arévalo, Josefina Mendez, Bernardita Ovalle, Catalina Korze, Rosa Maria Castillo, Patricio Carvallo, and Camila Bañados.
Special thanks to the team that helped make this project possible: Myriam Luz Diaz, Carolina Urzúa, and Camila Marín.
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