We are delighted to share the news that Claudia Alarcón & Silät have been invited to participate in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Claudia Alarcón is an indigenous textile artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people, who inhabit the Grand Chaco region that straddles the borders of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Alongside her individual practice, she leads the Silät collective, an organisation of one hundred women weavers of different generations. Together, they continue the centuries-old tradition of weaving with hand-spun vegetal fibres from the native chaguar plant, a communal, female-led production. Working closely with curator Andrei Fernández since 2015, Alarcón and Silät explore the possibilities of artmaking within and beyond these traditions.
Adriano Pedrosa’s exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque (Foreigners Everywhere) will highlight artists located at the world’s margins, and those treated as a foreigner in their own country. Alarcón and Silät’s inclusion reflects the significance of their work as an experimental expression of contemporary indigenous culture and an important contribution to the art historical narrative of geometric abstraction in Latin America. This is a tremendous achievement for the collective, who held their first UK exhibition last October at Cecilia Brunson Projects.
Prior to the opening of the Biennale this April, new works by Claudia Alarcón & Silät will be included in Hecho a Mano, a forthcoming group exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects, exploring the diversity of textile art across Latin America. More information here.
Past exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects
