Above: Installation by Elena Martinez Bolio included in “Una Larga Hebra/A Long Stitch” at Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca
As an artist, I am a conduit so that the moment of creation, which is so vast and profound, can emerge from the simplicity and humility of a needle. That is what I try to express in this exhibition, to marvel again and to find meanings in the garments we wear day by day, because they record memories of what is ours.”
Elena Martinez Bolio, “A Long Thread“
Artist Elena Martinez Bolio has spent years working alongside women in villages of the Yucatan. She has learned their techniques for what has often been dismissed as mere domestic craft and liberated those applications to relate her personal stories and theirs. We were fortunate to catch an exhibition of her work, “A Long Stitch,” at the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca this past spring.
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