Ana Teresa Barboza
Bio
Ana Teresa Barboza (Lima, 1981), uses weaving and other traditional craft techniques to transmit to the viewer a meditative and powerful observation about everything that surrounds her.
Graduated from the Faculty of Art, she has participated in individual and group exhibitions in South America, North America and Europe and has expanded her studies and carried out residencies in Paris, Taipei, Geneva, Lima and Spain. She has been selected for the Paiz Biennial (Guatemala), Sydney Biennial (Australia) and Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) and has had an individual exhibition at Malba. Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, La Iberoamericana de Toro or the Textile Art Biennial. Chili.
His work is found in important public and private collections such as: H.E.F Collection. Juan Entrecanales de Azcárate, María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation Collection, Méndez – Gallent Collection, Candela Álvarez Collection, Hochschild Collection among others.
Statement
Ana Teresa Barboza (Lima, 1981), uses weaving and other traditional artisan techniques to convey to the viewer a meditative and powerful observation of everything that surrounds them. Initially her work had to do with the awareness of the human body, representing it as a sectioned structure, recomposed and decorated through sewing and embroidery to reflect on its relationship with others.
Subsequently, that gaze moves towards her environment, to focus on the links that unite her with others and her work inflects to acquire a more social character, opening up to reflect on the transformation of nature and the relationship or contact of humans with it, for which she uses embroidery and weaving to make a parallel between manual work and the processes of nature, creating structures with the thread similar to those made by a plant, for example. In some works, experiments are simulated that seek to recompose nature with another order, teaching us to observe it again.
Her actual work seeks to relearn the work of artisans to restore contact with the manual and bodily processes with which heritage, culture and images have been taking shape and show the traces left by the body and nature on them.
Additional information
El paisaje visible se asemeja a una membrana que contiene los procesos
infinitos y las múltiples transformaciones en el interior de la tierra.
Un tejido de acontecimientos y eventos imperceptibles al ojo humano.
Una minuciosa trama de instantes que regresan a su estado de crecimiento y
transformación gracias al trabajo manual, a las técnicas del telar y el
bordado, donde los hilos, nudos y pliegues quedan como registro de este proceso.
