Lara Ordoñez

Spain
Statement
Statement

I have always been interested in stories—both the written ones I could read, and the ones people told me, whether real or fictional, or the ones I could invent and create as I pleased.

After completing my studies in Fine Arts and Art Production, I decided to continue learning to read and tell stories through materials and their manipulation. While writing my doctoral thesis, I discovered the parallels between text and fabric, and how these two forms of expression have coexisted throughout human history.

Soft materials and plant and animal fibers have their own significance. By working with materials drawn from nature, directly from the physical context in which I find myself, the resulting pieces are rooted in this context from the very moment they begin to be worked on.

I am interested in identity, both my own and the collective one. Cultural heritage endures through expressions, objects, places, materials, and processes. I try to incorporate that heritage into my discourse through the use of textile techniques, natural dyeing, and the formats I work with.

Textiles invite manipulation, experimentation with materials and techniques. They present me with opportunities to discover how to tell stories through a process in which time is yet another element to consider.

My languages are textures, colors, light, and the materials my hands manipulate as I work. I think about my surroundings and find connections everywhere between text and fabric—between what my hands recognize and know how to read. That is how I have learned to read with my hands.

When working at the loom, an exchange of imaginations takes place, just as when I open the page of a book. This happens when the weft is joined with the warp. Writing with thread, string, and wool. Leaving a written record of what has been lived, of what has been witnessed through the interplay of long sentences followed by periods and commas, knots and ends forming words until a story, a tale, is told.

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