Hands, Matter and Memory
Galería Isabel Hurley•Oct 31, 2025 — Dec 12, 2025
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In the context of a world dominated by the instantaneousness, the here-and-now and mass production the inclusion of handicrafts and their techniques in contemporary is a reality, even, one might say, a form of resistance and also an exercise in thinking. The artists in this exhibition, Maria Alcaide, Natalia Castañeda, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández, Paloma de la Cruz, Fuentesal Arenillas, Paula Garcia-Masedo and Leonor Serrano Rivas regard their skills as being a political language, a way of knowledge and a new vernacular.
Historically relegated to the realm of domesticity, women or the utilitarian, handicrafts have been reclassified by these creators as a corporal and material concept. Weaving, embroidering or modeling are actions that imply memory and experience, knowledge that goes beyond the traditional categories of the skills. The artists discard the instruction manual to imitate the old and salvage it as a contemporary gesture that sets in motion new narratives, new…
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Hands, Matter and Memory
Galería Isabel Hurley•Oct 31, 2025 — Dec 12, 2025
Press Release
In the context of a world dominated by the instantaneousness, the here-and-now and mass production the inclusion of handicrafts and their techniques in contemporary is a reality, even, one might say, a form of resistance and also an exercise in thinking. The artists in this exhibition, Maria Alcaide, Natalia Castañeda, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández, Paloma de la Cruz, Fuentesal Arenillas, Paula Garcia-Masedo and Leonor Serrano Rivas regard their skills as being a political language, a way of knowledge and a new vernacular.
Historically relegated to the realm of domesticity, women or the utilitarian, handicrafts have been reclassified by these creators as a corporal and material concept. Weaving, embroidering or modeling are actions that imply memory and experience, knowledge that goes beyond the traditional categories of the skills. The artists discard the instruction manual to imitate the old and salvage it as a contemporary gesture that sets in motion new narratives, new…
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