Sin tiempo [Timeless]

Sin tiempo is an object woven with a plant called “simbol” that grows in the sand dunes of Cafayate, Salta. With it, the weavers like Sixto Maita, with whose work I articulate my piece, carry out the ancestral craft of basketmaking. Maita is one of the oldest basketmakers in the village and is the one who makes the disks that compose this object, pieces with which I create the total design. It is a task in collaboration that delves into local technologies (thinking from technique) that build poetics from craft, materiality and located aesthetics.
We intend to unsettle hierarchic colonial dichotomies between art and craftwork, the useful and beautiful, poetry and handicraft, the geometry of natural. We believe that this technology is a group of social actions that, through a rhetoric material, builds an object that incarnates a cultural knowledge. The work shows us a powerful presence, without precise answers.
Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2019-2020 Catalogue