Daniela Gomez Paz

              I craft intersections between weaving, painting, collage and sculpture.

As a result, I make…

 

                            tesaduras, (I tighten) 

                                                                 enredaduras, (I entangle)

                                                                                                             and ligaduras (I connect)

 

Through these actions, she secures, strengthens, complicates, and integrates textural surfaces to one another. She traces the interconnections between different textile techniques that traverse la Cordillera de los Andes in South America and engages with the language of weaving as a form for storytelling. Through the intrinsic power of cloth, she unravels movement by physically giving into the exertion of the process. Utilizing organic material, fabricated objects, natural and synthetic fibers in ways that become terrains in and of themselves allows her to thread the autobiographical through the wider communal fabric of the familial. This threading situates her in social grounds as she grapples with perceptions of femininity and ideas about what is natural, unnatural and the layered tensions these oppositions hold.

 

@daniela.g.paz

 

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