ANTONIA ALARCÓN
Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022
The Planter (Or The Arrangement Of Thoughts) | 2021
Antonia Alarcón is a Chilean artist, writer, teacher and researcher of textile media and its history. She did her BA on Plastic and Visual Arts at ENPEG "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. She is a collaborator at Instituto de la Imagen Latente, professor at CENTRO (CDMX), and was a fellow of the
Jóvenes Creadores program of FONCA 2020-2021. She has also published her texts in Terremoto, GASTV and OndaMX. She is currently researching the possibilities of art in order to find spaces for affective and sensitive practices, where spaces of vulnerability and community can be developed.
“Memory is a collective landscape embedded in our body.
In my work, I explore the relationship between memory and affections through visual resources in the common imaginary of nature and landscape. With this, I seek to generate evocative and personal experiences in various media through image and narration. ”
The Planter I Detail I 2021
The Planter I 2021
“For the past four years, my research has been focused on migratory traces in Mexico, from vegetal migratory flows to affective mapping of migration processes. My artistic work includes the exploration and development of textile techniques in contemporary art, specifically though embroidery and natural dyes. Textiles have historically been an excluded medium
of this context, so it is a daily job to take advantage of existing on the sidelines and find the fissures where textiles can enter as a medium in art.”
Song Of The River II | 2020
Border Crossing | 2020
Persistence Of The Lilium I 2021