“…a splicing of a fiber that runs through time”*
Ruth Corcuera
Thread can be considered one of humanity’s earliest technologies. Spinning, twisting, knotting, and weaving are operations that not only produce objects but also organize time and memory.
In this exhibition, textiles appear as both gesture and creative process. An autonomous language, yet also linked to a field of relationships between body, technique, and materiality. The works gathered here are created using both different artisanal and mechanical techniques—embroidery, weaving, sewing, and assemblage. Beyond this diversity of methods, these artists manage, in a single, unified effort, to synthesize making and creating.
The creative scene unfolds along diverse axes, dialogues between genres, crossings of tradition, heterochronies, and varied narratives that create tension among diverse ways of making: plant fibers, inherited techniques, industrial processes, and digital technologies coexist and transform thread into art.
Rather than affirming closed identities, the exhibition proposes considering territories, generations, and practices that account for the textile horizon in the Americas.
Analy Villagra, Wich’í artist, La Curvita, Santa Victoria Este, Salta, Argentina. In her pieces, chaguar thread is part of a larger framework, that of the textile knowledge of Wich’í women. Through the interlacing of bags and the weaving of cloths, these women commemorate and re-actualize their cosmic origin.
Antonio Pichilla Quacaín, Maya Tz’utujil artist, San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala. The thread functions here as an active element in the jasper process and also in the exercise of memory with their ancestors, participating in a community of weavers from Lake Atitlán, and their system of knowledge.
Diego Miccige, a textile artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his works, thread is the building block of sacred geometry, resulting in legions of anthropomorphic guardians made of silk threads and venerable spaces.
Gabriela Nirino is an artist, designer, and jeweler from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Seattle, USA. Using the Jacquard loom, she interweaves mercerized threads and gold to create female figures inspired by the ñustas, or spinning virgins, linking imagery from Inca textiles with figures of women from her close circle.
Jesús Casimiro, Diaguita Calchaquí artist, Luracatao, Salta/Buenos Aires, Argentina. Woolen threads that embody the enduring legacy of Diaguita textiles and continuities where the poetics of the ancestral weaver are found through the interplay with the local techniques of his community of origin.
Josefina Concha, artist, Santiago, Chile. Threads as instruments of embroidery, a technique in which she explores thickness and volume, the lightness of fabrics, color, and their reverse side.
Tadeo Muleiro, artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Threads that are a maternal legacy and a sewing tool for creating multifaceted, soft, and articulated panels where he unfolds a mythological and magical universe.
It is in textiles that an expanded territory emerges, where knowledge, technologies, and ways of imagining community converge. The thread then reveals itself as a living structure: a sensitive continuity capable of linking different times, territories, and ways of inhabiting the world.
Roxana Amarilla
Buenos Aires, May 2026
*Corcuera, Ruth, Arte textil del ‘60 al 2000, at Historia General del Arte en Argentina,Tomo XII, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2015, p.353
