Weaving with chaguar fibres is fundamental to the visual culture, narrative history and economics of the Wichí people. Its centrality is articulated in a mythological tale, in which beautiful women, living in the sky as stars, would travel down to earth on woven chaguar ropes to dine on the fish caught by fishermen. Upon discovering this, the men employed the help of birds to snap the ropes and the women were trapped on earth for evermore, but continued to weave and pass the knowledge onto their daughters.

In Wichí communities, girls are taught to weave from the age of 12, their creations a way to provide financially. Crucially, the practice also holds spiritual associations, its continuation through generations offering a way to access and preserve the knowledge of these divine, celestial women.

Kates tsinhay [Mujeres estrellas / Star women] represents the heaven-aboding ancestors who first wove with chaguar. Their forms are indefinite, abstracted, and radiate a soft yellow glow. With the open texture and the diaphanous quality this creates, there is a dream-like ethereality to the stories cast in her work. Alarcón participates in this spiritual tradition, whilst also guarding and transmitting the stories of past generations.