Violeta Ortega-Navarrete (Mexico)

Bio

Born in Mexico City, her work has been mostly in the field of fibres and textiles. She has specialised in traditional techniques such as weaving, knitting, felting, embroidery among others. She works with materials such as wool, natural fibres and dyes to explore themes that may lead to reflection on how we could have more ethical relations with the environment. Violeta takes up these traditionally feminine techniques to address topics such as self-contemplation, the recognition of the sacred in nature, the ancestral wisdom heritage and the healing capacity of art, through the act of weaving and experimenting with materials. She studied Textile Design at the National Institute of Fine Arts, and Hispanic Literature at the National University of Mexico.

Project

For her Residency at Narva Art,  she proposes a textile installation created in situ in Narva, which integrates with the environment and explores possible non-human languages of continuity. Elaborated with various traditional textile techniques that also integrate some natural elements of the context. The textile installation explores the idea of separation, in order to consider ourselves as a continuity of the environment. And on the other side, perceiving the non-human otherness as entities of willing and living. 

Using traditional methods of dyeing, weaving and intervention of the fibers, with the idea of bringing back the ancestral conception of unity / continuity, about oneself / the other. Violeta aims to develop a language -outside of convention- for connection with oneself, with others and with the environment.