Inner Voices

Internal Voices is a series of textile works that comes from a specific interest in the historical condition of women (specifically in Mexico); diverse circumstances in time and geography, which voluntarily and involuntarily have confined us to physical or mental spaces that have served as an instrument to separate our participation in the social, political and cultural life of our time.

 

The dubious mental state that suggests being a woman is related to the dissociative capacity developed by some; probably as a voluntary ability coming from a need for dialogue that could only be internal. Soliloquies of a voice without subordinate euphonies circumscribed her genius to delirium.

 

The history of humanity tells of the exploits of heroines and muses, capable of reciting harmonious lines full of lyricism, but the reality of their context is that hardly any of them knew how to read or write; instead, the domestic education they received was the involuntary space for textile creation, which beyond being a minor trade in its time, served as an instrument for recording public memories or intimate narratives encoded in languages ​​that dispensed with letters to be told in silence.

The inner voices with which many brilliant minds coexisted were never alien; perhaps they were the unwritten thoughts of those whose word was condemned by accusations of congenital inferiority.

 

Making use of textiles is a reference to the materials that are associated with femininity; working specifically with natural fibers such as wool, linen and cotton in combination with graphite powder is a confrontation between materials proper and improper for women. Yarn is the antagonistic element of writing; impregnating it with graphite is almost an oxymoron, two irreconcilable meanings that are forced to coexist.

I am interested in the similarities that exist in the concepts of literary writing with fabric, the knot of the plot, how stories are woven.