Our represented artist Paloma Castillo is part of the I Biennial of Textile Art (BAT) of Chile, which takes place from 30 September to 19 November 2023 in three venues in Santiago.
With a focus on creating new languages around contemporary art and textile tradition, and under the precept that textiles inhabit different spaces of everyday life, memory and remembrance, BAT invites the public to discover the work of 25 Chilean and international textile artists from nine countries in the Americas and Europe, including Cecilia Vicuña, Ernesto Neto, Paula Brugnoli, Ana Teresa Barboza and Mónica Bengoa.
The main section of the Biennial, led by Chilean curator Matías Allende, is called Fiesta de la Primavera [Spring Festival] and is presented at the Museo de Artes Visuales - MAVI UC and the Centro de Extensión del Instituto Nacional (CEINA) in Santiago. The hand-embroideries Pan (2020), Sufragista (2022), Brisa Nuclear (2022) and Ovidio o el Ígneo Resplandor (2023) by Paloma Castillo are displayed on the -3 floor at CEINA.
The Design Gallery of the Centro Cultural La Moneda (CCLM) presents the exhibition Hay olvidos que que que queman y memorias que engrandecen, comprising 27 arpilleras made between 1976 and 1980 - 18 of which are part of the collection of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende - and nine contemporary pieces made between 1997 and 2003 in the artistic workshops of the Casa de la Mujer Huamachuco II in the municipality of Renca (Santiago). The exhibition will be open until 12 November.
The Biennial of Textile Art of Chile - developed independently and with the financial support of donations - aims to celebrate the contemporary expression of the textile tradition through the work of national and Latin American artists who have developed new readings of this language, confirming textile art as one of the pillars of contemporary art and its greatest exponent in Latin America.
2 October 2023
