Description

Catalogue of the exhibition Aó. Textile Episodes of the Visual Arts in Paraguay , presented at Malba between April 8 and August 1, 2022.

The exhibition presents 16 works produced between 1993 and 2022 that revisit textile practices in the work of ten artists closely linked to Paraguay: Marcos Benítez, Félix Cardozo, Claudia Casarino, Feliciano Centurión, Arnaldo Cristaldo, Ricardo Migliorisi, Mónica Millán, Osvaldo Salerno, Joaquín Sánchez, and Karina Yaluk. Some of them adopt traditional weaving techniques (such as ñandutí, aó po'í, poyví, and encaje yú, with deep pre-colonial and colonial roots) to explore local issues in the present day. Others renew embroidery, printing, or assemblage techniques to weave narratives about the role of women, work, the environment, the language that inhabits us, and its translations. Aó reinterprets a poetics of textiles that holds the thread of shared, everyday stories.

Alongside the exhibition, Malba presents a publication that reproduces the exhibited works accompanied by texts from the curator, Lia Colombino, and biographical notes on each of the artists. It also includes an introduction by María Amalia García, Malba's chief curator, a curatorial essay by Colombino, a text by Argentine sociologist and researcher Lorena Soler exploring the political history of Paraguay, and a visual report by Paraguayan photographer Fernando Allen on the craft of Paraguayan weavers. The publication is rounded out with a selection of 19th-century images related to traditional textiles from the Paraguayan Imagoteca, a visual archive curated by Milda Rivarola.

Authors
María Amalia García
Lía Colombino
Lorena Soler
Fernando Allen
Milda Rivarola

Technical specifications
Published by: Malba
Year: 2022
Type: Exhibition catalog
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 30 x 22 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 66
ISBN: 978-987-48521-3-7