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EMBAJADA, San Juan, is excited to announce artist María “Lulu” Varona’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Justo ahora (right now), on view June 29–August 24, 2024.
María “Lulú” Varona describes her practice of embroidering images on fabric using the cross-stitch technique as one that not only requires a significant investment of time and attention, but also necessarily requires affection, requires love. Her compositions are, in addition to an artistic practice, a practice of care—in fact, it is precisely this care that makes possible the poetry that Justo ahora gives us. Beyond being personal care, it is above all collective care. It does not merely encompass the present. Since it is a product of tradition, it is also a product of that which recurs.
Like Lulú, her grandmother also sewed, and it is the inherited pulse that is honored in each piece. The needle of Lulú, of our moment, is in turn the needle of a country. The needle passed from hand to hand, from generation to…
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EMBAJADA, San Juan, is excited to announce artist María “Lulu” Varona’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Justo ahora (right now), on view June 29–August 24, 2024.
María “Lulú” Varona describes her practice of embroidering images on fabric using the cross-stitch technique as one that not only requires a significant investment of time and attention, but also necessarily requires affection, requires love. Her compositions are, in addition to an artistic practice, a practice of care—in fact, it is precisely this care that makes possible the poetry that Justo ahora gives us. Beyond being personal care, it is above all collective care. It does not merely encompass the present. Since it is a product of tradition, it is also a product of that which recurs.
Like Lulú, her grandmother also sewed, and it is the inherited pulse that is honored in each piece. The needle of Lulú, of our moment, is in turn the needle of a country. The needle passed from hand to hand, from generation to…
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