Ana Teresa Barboza
Bio
A graduate of the Faculty of Art, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions across South America, North America, and Europe, and has pursued further studies and residencies in Paris, Taipei, Geneva, Lima, and Spain. She was selected to participate in the Paiz Biennial (Guatemala), the Sydney Biennale (Australia), the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador), and the Helsinki Biennial (Finland), and held a solo exhibition at MALBA — Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.
Statement
Ana Teresa Barboza uses weaving and other traditional craft techniques to convey to the viewer a meditative and powerful reflection on everything that surrounds her. Initially, her work was concerned with awareness of the human body, representing it as a segmented, recomposed structure, decorated through sewing and embroidery in order to reflect on its relationship with others.
Subsequently, her gaze shifted toward her surroundings, focusing on the bonds that connect her with others. Her work took a turn toward a more social dimension, opening up to reflections on the transformation of nature and the relationship or contact between humans and the natural world. To this end, she uses embroidery and weaving to draw a parallel between manual labor and natural processes, creating thread structures similar to those formed by a plant, for example. In some works, she simulates experiments that seek to recompose nature in a new order, teaching us to look at it anew.
Her current work seeks to relearn from the labor of artisans in order to reestablish contact with the manual and bodily processes through which heritage, culture, and images have taken shape, revealing the traces left by both the body and nature upon them.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
