GALERIA Miriam Medrez

GALERIA

“Desde la Tierra 2023”

Is an artwork created using textiles and fabric scraps, which explores the symbiotic relationship between human beings and the Earth. Through the use of different colors, textures, and sewing techniques, the piece visually represents the complex and multifaceted interaction between humanity and our natural environment. As the viewer delves deeper into the artwork, they encounter a section that portrays the exploitation and environmental degradation caused by human activities, for this rougher and darker textiles are used, and less refined sewing techniques are employed.

Handwoven fabrics and carefully stitched fabric scraps are used to symbolize resilience and the possibility of restoring our connection with nature. Soft colors and organic forms convey a sense of harmony and renewal. Recycled textiles and patchwork techniques are employed to create a visual composition that symbolizes interdependence and mutual collaboration. Colors and shapes intertwine, highlighting the importance of living in balance with our environment and promoting sustainable practices..

Together, "Desde la Tierra" is an artwork that invites the viewer to reflect on our relationship with the Earth and how our individual and collective actions can influence its future. Through the use of textiles and fabric scraps, the piece effectively conveys a powerful message about the importance of preserving and valuing our shared home.

Desde la tierra
Home Textiles, fabric scraps and the plane is made od metal with welds
3.10 x 1.45 x 0.45 m
This art piece it´s about war and how affects the landscape where i live, it also talks about habitat destuction and displacements

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Desde la tierra
Household Textiles, fabric scraps and the plane is made of metal with welds
2.50 x 1.75 m
How the plane flies through arid and unknown lands, how we can cross the world with a machine invented by man, admire these landscapes from the heights.

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Desde la tierra
Home Textiles, fabric scraps and black suede fabric
2.70 x 2.00 x 0.05 m
This demostrates how the landscape start to break

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Desde la tierra
Home Textiles, fabric scraps and hand stitches
2.60 x 1.70 x 0.05 m
This piece talks about the land, the ways that water takes from it and how it is built and deconstructed

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Desde la tierra
Home Textiles, fabric scraps and hand stitches
1.51 x 1.48 x 0.05 m
It talks about industrialization and how it affects the earth, including how through it pollution begins in the land and in the waters that later lose their characteristic blue color.

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Desde la tierra
Gold cloth, household fabrics and hand-woven
3.00 x 1.50 m
There is a bipolarity of red and white, red speaking about the blood spilled in the territorial extensions, while white represents peace and the union of different strengths between spaces to grow, likewise, gold is the representation of the gift of the earth to us, since everything is borrowed from the earth.