Todas las memorias

Group exhibition curated by Virginie Kastel at Biblioteca 611. Todas las memorias gathers the work of five artists, based on their personal approach to textile art as a sensitive manifestation of memories. The show presents artwork by Trubaik, Miriam Médrez, Laura Mellado, Georgia Durán and Amanda Cantú de León.

Memory in art appears as a vestige of feelings and life; translated into matter, memory becomes a witness of experience.

I guess that, from that common place of experience record, we found textile art and writing, recognized through etymology and literature. Now in this space where we were convened, there was a a library before, there was also a question about writing, heritage, and historical memory, the father, the son, there was a history mainly written by the perspective of men.

What do the working hands of women tell about this place? They talk about the act of feeling and community, time, productivity and leisure, existence, vicissitude, of playing and reflecting on existential questions.

Besides the familiarity of the conversation among women then they occupy their hands, the question for meaning always arises. Women know when they have been gazed, used, but also they consider themselves as producers of knowledge.

Textile art aims to offer a sensitive answer to the problems of existence, and presents itself as a remedy to the patriarchal paradigm: constituted by love, recognition, dialogue and spontaneous reciprocity.

Todas las memorias is an immersive experience to textile, to a reflection on how the speech was privileged in a masculine society but memories are held by the hands of women.

— Virginie Kastel