GABRIELA MARTINEZ ORTIZ
In this project the artist fused her photographs and the textile world. The objective
of the project was to capture different natural places in Mexico in photographs that
would dictate a path of colors and textures represented with embroidery.
MAYRA ACOSTA RAMÍREZ
“That is why dance has represented a problem for colonization, as it is a mode of
political resistance or rebellion. The dancers turn the stage into resistance to
domination and a way of combating the absence of original cultures in history.”
SEBASTIÁN MONTES DE OCA H.
Cenzontle was reborn to sing and live in freedom. Like Cenzontle, women
have been reborn and in the process have found their voice, a voice that echoes
in the ears of those who seek to silence them.
Fly and sing out loud!
DANIELA GUZMÁN
The simple textile fabric that forms around the image is intended to be
an indirect timeline.
RODOLFO SALMERON
These pieces are part of a series that, from the aesthetics of abstraction,
invite us to become absorbed in the sensitive dimension of the territory.
A recurrent memory of childhood is to be protected… to be embraced by some cloth that our mother or
grandmother used to wear, whether it was a shawl, a rebozo, a chalina or a poncho, this mere act strengt-
hened that cultural link that transcends generations.
This exhibition is a tribute to those memories in which culture, cosmogony, beliefs, land, religion, and
identity are expressed. Originally titled Textiles: Cultura, Moda y Arte [Textiles: Culture, Fashion and
Art], this exhibition, that was originally planned to be a cultural sample of Mexican handcrafts, soon
evolved into a major event from which lectures and academic experts in the field, joined to start a dia-
logue between history and art craft to give the fabric a new reinterpretation of what we have defined as
ITY: Identity, Decoloniality and Glocality, which we also propose to associate with Identity, Art and
Deconstruction of what a piece of fabric turned into history, tradition, culture, expression and memory
implies and signifies.
Textiles are a type of art that has accompanied the peoples
of Mexico and South Africa from pre-colonial times to the
present day. Textiles have functioned as a resistance and
social cohesion symbol for the groups that produce them.
Using textile art as a fundamental axis, (De) Colonized
Textiles aims to re-signify our identities considered
historically subaltern, using textile art as a fundamental axis.
At the same time, it proposes an artistic fusion that materializes
a twinning struggle for decolonization. It also proposes to carry
out an interdisciplinary and intercultural work created by artists,
academics and students from Mexico and South Africa; moreover,
it is to exhibit internationally and from a decolonized
perspective the importance of textiles in our national identity.
This project aims that artists, academics and students from
Mexico and South Africa; all build dialogues from the global south and
vindicate our identities taking textile art as the
fundamental axis.