Latin America is a region of great ethnic plurality. Although the reality of the peoples
different nuances, throughout the region there is still cultural segregation and ancestral traditions that contrast
cultural segregation, ancestral traditions that contrast with contemporary globalized culture and consumer society.
globalized culture and the consumer society. Faced with this reality, I intend to rescue a handcrafted
In the face of this reality, I intend to rescue a handcrafted aesthetic component of the native culture, the pre-Columbian textiles, as they constitute elements that carry an aesthetic that integrates the values and cosmovision of the native peoples.
Observing these textiles of ancestral cultures such as: Maya, Inca, Huari, Moche, Mapuche,
Aymara, I study their iconography, symbology, coloring and composition, and I discover that in this worldview a profound
worldview combines a deep respect for nature, and the search for harmony of the human being with his essential being (spirit).
human being with his essential being (spirit) and his environmental surroundings.
I reproduce through the simulacrum that allows me the oil painting and mixed technique by means of the
collage process, different compositions that create a mixture of selected textiles.
My works connote an archaeological rescue, the fragments and textile shreds represent the segregation of these cultures.
segregation of these cultures. With this exhibition I intend to create a reflection on the Latin American identity, taking the aesthetic
Latin American identity, taking the handmade aesthetics of textiles and giving them the category of conventional art in a
conventional art in a painting format. The lofty questioning that my work entails is the idea that an evolved and integrated society
idea that an evolved and integrating society must have a horizontal and synergic interaction between all its members.
synergetic interaction among all its members, that is to say, shared cultures must harmonize, in this case, between the contemporary of the consumer society and the original that persists.
