Next Thursday, the Real Fábrica de Tapices de Madrid (calle Fuenterrabía, 2) inaugurates at 11 o’clock the exhibition Re-encuentros: para tejer la vida y los afectos.
The opening ceremony will be attended by the ambassador of Colombia, Eduardo Ávila, the director of the Real Fábrica de Tapices, Alejandro Klecker, and Maisa Covaleda, who together with Carolina Anfibia and Ana Milena Gómez have made this project possible, under the management and production of El Árbol del Magnolio, platform for artistic creation and production.
The guests will then move to the Factory garden to attend the performance of the performance Entre líos y ríos, by the Colombian artist Vanessa Nieto, an action that explores the trade of washing clothes and its connection with the river as a space for work and community, especially among women. Through research and dialogue with laundries from the Barrio Antigua Fábrica de Loza in Bogota, the work focuses on the poetics of soap and textile fibers. Through gestures such as holding, stacking and transforming, performance establishes connections between the rituals of textile work and artistic creation.
Finally, there will be a conversation between the artists Vanessa Nieto, Ana Milena Gómez and Ani Mesa with the director of the RFT, Alejandro Klerkner, and Maisa Covaleda, director of Hilvanario.
This exhibition weaves a dialogue between a centenary space as the Real Fábrica de Tapices of Madrid, which brings together a community mostly of women workers, supporting the craft of creating and restoring the tapestry, with the ancestral and contemporary textile universe of the Latin American Andean region.
