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Catalina Swinburn (Santiago, 1979) has been working with the geopolitical concept of displacement. Her practice of weaving vintage documents paper sheets as support became a manifest of political disagreement by using documents of displaced patrimonial treasures, or musical scores of operas with exile thematics, or geopolitical maps. Her weaving exercise is trespassing by a diasporic feeling with a poetic and subtle aesthetic. She persues to rescue ancestrals rituals related to sacred places, ancestral geography and original memory.
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"While textile production is rooted in a specific time and place, textiles become objects that function within a system of exchange. The pages from archival books, ripped, folded and transformed into coded messages already destined to such a purpose by the folding , mark the line that determines the scope of an enigma. The weaving thus restructures the ruins of the book to prepare them for an unimaginable role, as the singular components of a new object: a blanket that can be used as a garment or a shroud. The woven piece is transformed into a portable investiture. Porting a cloak its aluded to both female and male atributes; its a dressing, imposing and ritual piece that acts as and gendered identities on the frontier. The Cloak is also a talisman from harm, keeping one safe and secure throughout transitions."
Catalina Swinburn
"The interlaced sculptures, process of systematic manual labor, are done to be worn by the artist in performances and becomes a fragile light heavy armour ported over female sholders as a metaphor of resistance. This woven narratives are regarded as a substitution for a woman’s voice, weaving can portray what words cannot say.
Weaving is a dynamic activity in literature that has served as a platform for gender ideology. Weaving is a mystery within woman's sphere, an activity symbolic of female expression."
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Catalina Swinburn
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