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All photographs © Ana María Hernando, shared with permission
Fueled with a way of rebel, yards of colourful tulle cascade from home windows and down staircases in site-specific installations by Ana María Hernando. The delicate, pliable materials breaches current structure and entwines bushes in swaths of mesh, creating works which are each visually putting and subversive.
Evocative of ballgowns and clothes which are historically worn by girls, the tulle explodes right into a flood of cloth as a approach to break with social constructions surrounding feminity. “As a Latina, I discover how the female comes ahead in energy and adaptability, in magnificence and in (an) unstoppable abundance of generosity,” the Argentinian artist says.
Although she’s labored with a spread of supplies, Hernando shares that she at all times incorporates a textile aspect, which appears “to be an expansive conduit for my work” and references her childhood in Buenos Aires, the place she noticed the ladies in her household stitching, crocheting, and embroidering collectively daily. She explains:
The issues they made from cloth and thread had been expressions of their spirit. All the wonder—the hours of work, the washing and ironing—was made invisible as soon as the desk was laid and stained with meals. I discover the unacknowledged female power of work as a prayer that I’ve identified my entire life.
Hernando primarily works from Boulder, though she’s spent a lot of the yr to this point in a forest in Tennessee’s South Cumberland Plateau. If you happen to’re in Colorado, view the artist’s multidisciplinary initiatives within the coming months as half of Current Field on the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and in a September solo present at Denver Botanic Gardens. In 2022, yow will discover her on the Sun Valley Museum of Art and Denver’s Robischon Gallery. Till then, discover an archive of her tufted, textile-based initiatives on her site and Instagram. (by way of Cross Connect Magazine)
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