Memory Strata Exhibition

On this second occasion that Chiquita Room participates in Barcelona Gallery Weekend, we present the work of Carmen M. Castañeda. Through the translation of hand embroidery techniques from haute couture to a conceptual and experimental framework, the artist investigates the fragility of memory with an abstract, multidisciplinary and material language. The repetition of the same gesture, the layering of time, the slow processes and the study of the materials behaving in front of the embroidery gesture, make her take the discipline to its own limits. In this way, she re-signifies it and gives it a new context. The study of forms, drawings, textures and sensations around this repeated gesture construct an intimate language about time and memory. The seriation or multiplication of the same state, expression or embroidered portrait makes visible the difficulty of isolating a unique identity on a single canvas.

Wednesday, September 15, 18:30

Strata of memory
Inauguration with guided tour by artist Carmen M. Castañeda
Chiquita Room

Thursday, September 16, 12:30 p.m.

Spinning the gesture
Haute couture embroidery technique demonstration with Carmen M. Castañeda
Chiquita Room

Thursday, September 16, 7:00 pm

I am an artist
Piano improvisation concert with Mariano Zuzunaga
Chiquita Room

Friday, September 17, 9:00 pm

from the past ∞ from the future
Dance piece by Pedro Torres, , with Guillem Jiménez, Paula Serrano and neon sculptures, from the project Time Bends as We Come Closer, presented at Chiquita Room during Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2020.

Saturday, September 18, 12:30 p.m.

Spinning the gesture
Technical demonstration of haute couture embroidery with Carmen M. Castañeda.
Chiquita Room