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In the work of Felipe Mujica, traditional craft, community organizing and minimalist aesthetics come together. Hanging from the ceiling, like curtains, the work is created by the artist in collaboration with Johanna Unzueta (also in the exhibition) and a group of local artisans. Mujica writes:
Together with curator Mariangela Mendez-Prencke and the RSK team, we decided to produce the curtains for the exhibition in an open workshop. For the duration of 2 weeks, a group of about 15 people, mostly women and of different ages and levels of textile work experience, worked with me, and Johanna Unzueta, in the fabrication of 20 pieces. A community of people gathered around embroidery and shared labor, knowledge, life experiences… revolving around the Swedish tradition of Fika (tea/coffee break normally accompanied by pastries, bread, cheese, etc.)
The idea of collaborating with a local group of people or a local textile studio has to do with the concept of horizontality, which in this case is applied to creating a production methodology that is open, that foments a constant dialogue and learning process between the involved parts. Curtains: the title of the body of work contains this idea (not flags, not banners), which is intended to direct our attention to the domestic aspect of the work, of how and by whom it can be produced, under what circumstances, where (at a home or in a sewing studio?). The skills required to produce this work relate to a domestic world, to some close or far away relative we have that sews or embroiders at home.
Felipe Mujica was born in 1974 in Santiago de Chile and since 2000 he has lived in New York, United States. He received a Bachelor of Arts with a Mention in Engraving at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2021, he had his first individual institutional exhibition in the United States at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). His work has been seen extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the Americas.
His works are part of collections including the National Council for Culture and the Arts of the Government of Chile (Santiago, CL), MAC (Santiago, CL), MAVI (Santiago, CL), Fundación Engel (Santiago, CL), Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona, USA), The Space Collection (California, USA), Aspen Art Collection (Zürich, CH), Coleção Iguatemi (São Paulo, BR) and others.
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