UNTITLED MIGRANT
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Solo exhibition, Fashion & Lace Museum
Brussels
2019
“Je est un autre”
A. Rimbaud
Untitled Migrant is a chant to migration and its heroes, created thanks to the participation of migrant communities in São Paulo and Lisbon.
The installation brings together an affective migrant cartography and a series of fabric lithographs.
Visitors enter barefoot—an invitation to step into vulnerability and approach the migrant experience with openness.
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The Affective Migrant Cartography
40 embroidered garments, lithographs, and digital prints
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For this cartography, I used migrants’ own clothing as canvas, embroidering their stories along three threads of dialogue:
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The home we inhabit vs. the home we feel is our own
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Sensing migration: mapping displacement through intimate geographies
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Reaching a horizon: motivations, obstacles, dreams
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The cartography is laid on the ground and becomes a landscape visitors walk through—moving across recompilation of memories and pieces of migrant lives.
The Lithographs series
12 lithographs on fabric, lace, embroidery
The installation incorporates a series of lithographs, experimenting engraving in synergy with textile art. The body of lithographs compose a possible worldwide migratory landscape. An invitation of reflecting the relationships between migration, colonization, wars, dictatorships, famines, and climatic disasters.
The iconographic of repertoire of the series is emerged from the encounters with migrants.
Untitled Migrant was produced thanks to the support of Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation- São Paulo and Instituto Ramon Llull- Barcelona. It was shown at Musee de la Mode et Dentelle-Brussels, at Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial- Guimaraes, and at Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro.
