Latin America is a region of great ethnic plurality. Although the reality of the peoples in each area of America has different nuances, throughout the region there is still cultural segregation, ancestral traditions that contrast with contemporary globalized culture and consumer society. Faced with this reality, I intend to rescue an aesthetic handcrafted component of the native culture, the pre-Columbian textiles, as they constitute elements that carry an aesthetic that integrates the values and worldview of the native peoples.
Observing these textiles of ancestral cultures such as: Maya, Inca, Huari, Moche, Mapuche, Aymara, I study their iconography, symbology, color and composition, and I discover that in this worldview there is a deep respect for nature, and the search for harmony between the human being and his essential being (spirit) and his environmental surroundings.
I reproduce through the simulacrum that allows me the oil painting and mixed media through the process of collage, 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. With this exhibition I intend to create a reflection on Latin American identity, taking the handcrafted aesthetics of textiles and giving them the category of conventional art in painting format. The lofty questioning that my work entails is the idea that an evolved and integrating society must have a horizontal and 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.
