2025
Ceramic and wool
Embracing the ecological call of collaboration in difference, a creative bond emerges that is nourished by sensitive dialogues, explorations with materiality and dense memories that transcend the vital trajectories of each artist, marked by the elusive presence of water.
Ritual as a channel to address the aqueous actant acquires strength in this collective installation that puts life at the center, and with it, also death. And, in the middle of the journey, it opens contemplative fields to imagine the infinite possibilities of individual and community transformation, towards other forms of coexistence between species in the Anthropocene.
Waters allow themselves to be affected and affect everything in their path, transforming matter.
Violeta Ortega Navarrete’s contribution emerges through a sculpture that embodies the aqueous foundation of ceramics to express itself organically and welcome the otherness of the woolen weaves in an encounter that evokes the intimate underground life, as a metaphor for the emotional world of living beings. With this piece she explores invisible dimensions: that which escapes the light. And, with this, the place of intuition, the possible memory of waters and their similarities with human memory.
Do we inhabit the waters or do the waters inhabit us?
How does collaboration flow in the human creative field?
How do we transform the drought of loss?
Beyond the bodies of water, in this synergy of artists there is a call to listen attentively to the language of the waters. An invocation, a joint desire for repair that finds in this place and in this time a point of confluence before opening up to the sea.
Lorena Álvarez Chávez, curator.
This piece was exhibited in Tangent Projects Barcelona, fall 2025.