NATURAL IMPRESSIONS

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ADELINE CONTRERAS
Lyon, France
INSTAGRAM: @contreras_adeline
WEBSITE: adelinecontreras.com
Adeline Contreras, visual artist, lives and works in
France. Parallel to her studies in psychology, she
trained with artists from whom she learned drawing
and painting. She learns according to her needs,
gleaning, learning and striving to acquire the
techniques and skills she needs to express herself.
Thread techniques have always been part of her
daily life, and her grandmother, a seamstress,
passed on her skills to her. Training in engraving and
ceramics will complete her apprenticeship in
thread techniques. Adeline Contreras sees
sculpture as a form of research, a way of placing
material in a space that confronts the viewer’s body.
Her sculptures explore collective memory.
She prefers materials that already have a history,
that are part of a continuity and that give a new
perspective, blending individual history with
collective history, with our common archaic sense:
the womb, the original habitat, the envelope.
Adeline Contreras extends this work with the
creation of artist’s books, telling stories that speak of
silence and the reminiscence of origins.
She regularly exhibits in museums such as the
Texture Museum in Belgium, the Bibract
Archaeological Museum, contemporary art centers
such as LAC&S-Lavitrine and the Villa Datris
Foundation in France, and the Textile Art Biennial
in Mexico.
AMELIA NIN
Berlin, Germany
INSTAGRAM: @amelia.nin.artist
WEBSITE: amelianin.com
Amelia Nin is an Uruguayan textile artist who
lives and works in Berlin since 2007. She has
been among fabrics, wool and threads since her
childhood, with her grandparents she learned to
weave and embroider, from them she inherited
her passion for textiles. She studied Textile Design
at the Design School University of Uruguay and
worked for the industry designing fabrics for more
than 10 years. She lived and worked in Mexico City
for 5 years, an experience that marked her and led
her to rethink her goals as a textile designer. This
experience strengthened her interest in artisan
work and the different ancestral textile techniques;
research and experimentation thus regained
prominence in her work. Her works address the
relationship between the micro and macro cosmos,
themes such as the origin of things, our vulnerable
existence in the universe, our connection with nature
and our relationship with the planet. Her latest works
are inspired by lichens, as ancestral as the history of
the earth and whose essence contains a metaphor:
they are the result of a symbiosis, of an intimate
union between two organisms of different species,
united for mutual benefit in their vital development.
This makes such a delicate and sensitive organism
to be at the same time one of the strongest and
most resistant in the natural kingdom. Interestingly,
it is this intimate association, this union, which is
the cause of its greatest strength and which has
allowed it to survive to the present day, thus making
it a witness to humanity. Her creations have been
exhibited in Mexico, Germany, the United States
and Ukraine. Her works are part of diverse private
collections in Germany, Mexico and Uruguay.
ANNA CARMONA
Girona, Catalonia
INSTAGRAM: @lanna__c
Lanna C is an artist born in Girona, Spain with a
great international projection. During her childhood
she has been accompanied by the life stories of
her grandmother, a worker in the textile factories of
Sallent and Artés, as well as fabrics, threads, sewing
machines and a lot of creativity on the part of her
mother. dressmaker of hers A past that marks him
and discovers an art with many possibilities.
She began studies in furniture restoration and
polychromy and continued with forays into the world
of carpentry, carving, and restoration techniques.
She progressively trained and experimented in
other artistic disciplines such as furniture design
with metal plates and later she introduced herself to
artistic textile design. All this knowledge is applied
and valued through weaving and experiments
combining the techniques learned with different
materials and shapes her own language with which
she grows as an artist and as a person, inspired by
works by artists such as Olga de Amaral, Jagoda
Buić, Josep Grau-Garriga and Ricardo Bofill.
Eclecticism and decomposition, experimentation and
luxury, constant transformation and family heritage
linked to fabric. She has held various exhibitions
in her city and currently, her creations already live
in Madrid, Marbella, Paris, London, Las Vegas,
California and Florida.
ARIADNA PASTORINI
Buenos Aires, Argentina
INSTAGRAM: @ariadna_pastorini
WEBSITE: ariadnapastorini.com
Ariadna was born in Uruguay in 1965.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She graduated from the National School of Arts in
Buenos Aires. Lived in Germany from 2001 to 2007.
She is a multidisciplinary artist who combines textile
art with performance, soft sculpture and video. Her
work is also related to the fields of fashion and
design. As an editor of her books, she also curates
events in collaboration with other artists. Her work
has been exhibited in Germany, France, Canada,
USA, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Argentina.
Her works are part of public and private collections
in Argentina, Germany, Spain, Museum of Modern
Art of Buenos Aires, Macro Museum of Rosario,
Santa Fe, National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos
Aires, Bruzzone Collection, Amoedo Collection, Rios
Collection, among others. Her most recent
exhibitions were at the Amalita Fortabat Collection,
Museu textile, Brazil, Fundacion Proa, Museo de la
memoria, Museo de arte Moderno, Buenos Aires,
Bienal textile in Madrid, Spain.
Awards received: 2022 Konex Award, Diploma of
Merit. 2020 Exceptional grant from the Oxenford
Collection and Alfonso and Luz Castillo Foundation
Grant. 2019 Oxenford Collection Artist Travel Grant.
2018 Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship.
2017 SNAV Award, Installations and Alternative
Media. 2016 FNA Creativity Grant. 2000 Artist
Residency The Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada
with Fundación Antorchas. 1997 Kuitca Grant.
1996 Buenos Aires Art Critics Association Award, for
the performance “viva la muerte”.
BARBARA BRYN KLARE
OH and San Francisco Bay Area, USA
INSTAGRAM: @barbarabrynklare
WEBSITE: barbarabrynklare.com
Barbara Bryn Klare (she, her) is an artist with
studios in the San Francisco Bay area and
southeastern Ohio. Her artwork has been shown
nationally and internationally, including solo shows
at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and hugomento
gallery in San Francisco, and group shows at Miami
Art Week / Art Basel, Yerba Buena Center in San
Francisco, Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC,
Die Kunstschaffenden in Linz Austria, and Ruskin
Gallery in Cambridge UK. Artist residencies include
Cambridge Sustainability Residency, OpenWabi
in rural Ohio, and Textilsetur in northwest Iceland.
In 2019 she was awarded the Making for Good
Artist-in-Residence at Dairy Barn Arts Center,
exploring textile waste and climate change. Ms
Klare received a BA in geology and studio art/art
history from Oberlin College and an MA Fine Art
Merit from University for the Creative Arts (Barnsley
UK). Previously, she worked as a freelance textile/
surface designer in SF and LA and as a professional
writer and editor.
BRUNA OCTAVIANO
São Paulo, Brazil
INSTAGRAM: @brunaoctaviano
WEBSITE: brunaoctaviano.com.br
Bruna Octaviano (1980) was born in São Paulo
and graduated in architecture and urbanism by the
traditional Mackenzie University. In London, between
2004 and 2008, she took courses related to the fine
arts and design at institutions such as Sotheby’s
Institute of Art and Central Saint Martin’s College of
Art & Design. In 2008 she specialized in Furniture
Design with the designer Angélica Santi, by OAD -
Oficina de Arte e Design. She worked as furniture
designer for Tok & Stok and large industry woodwork
from the South of Brazil. Currently, Bruna works in
her own studio, where she develops tapestry pieces.
Her art work with the loom began in 2014, when she
made a trip to the interior of Piauí and learned the
technique of the comb loom lesson (tear de pente
liço). Since then, she has developed her own style,
with contemporary tapestries, created from various
materials and the wools and lines, the basis of her
work, are dyed by her, creating unique and natural
tones and hues.
CAROLINA CARUBIN
Buenos Aires, Argentina
INSTAGRAM: @carolinacarubin
WEBSITE: carolinacarubin.com
Carolina Carubin (Mendoza, Argentina, 1971)
graduated as an architect and is a visual artist.
Until 2011 she lived in Mendoza, a province in the
Andes Mountains, where she studied architecture
and began her training in art. In 2012 she moved
to the city of Buenos Aires and focused on visual
arts. She studied in the workshops of Paula Rivero
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