31 colours

We all have a knowledge to share and a knowledge to learn.

31 colores is an artistic, social and educational project in which four weavers from the community of Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica and four artists from the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts (UNTREF) worked collaboratively.

To transmit, to imitate, to learn, to create.

31 colores aims to generate a horizontal exchange of wisdom and knowledge of media and trades such as weaving, embroidery, sewing, sound, electronics, photography, visual arts and digital technology. Throughout the meetings, each of the participants was able to be both a teacher and an apprentice, which motivated the curiosity and appreciation in relation to the resources that each one brought with them. The articulation of this knowledge also allowed the expansion of the techniques and of the sense of the habitual chores of daily life and little by little it basted an intimate bond that derived in the creation of the collective works that are presented here. They combine art and popular tradition, weaving stories that appeal to both the social and the autobiographical memory of the participants and the neighborhood.

It is the desire of this project to be able to repeat the experience with other trades and practices  in order to continue favoring spaces of construction and community exchange between the Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica and the University.

31 colores is a project of the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts (UNTREF) and the Secretariat of Social and Urban Integration – GCBA.

Participants of the 31 colors project: María Pérez Santos, Sofía Vidal Quinteros, Lucía Sivila Vargas, Irma Juana Herrero, Guadalupe Chávez, Mariana Lombard, Marlin Velasco, Lucas Dedyn and Sebastián Pasquel.

Textile 1

Collective action: María Pérez Santos, Sofía Vidal Quinteros, Lucía Sivila Vargas, Irma Juana Herrero, Guadalupe Chávez, Mariana Lombard, Marlín Velasco, Lucas Dedyn, Sebastián Pasquel

 Electrotextile with sound

2019

Circumference of 150 cm diameter

Textile 2

 Collective action: María Pérez Santos, Sofía Vidal Quinteros, Lucía Sivila Vargas, Irma Juana Herrero, Guadalupe Chávez, Mariana Lombard, Marlin Velasco, Lucas Dedyn, Sebastián Pasquel

Electrotextile with light

2019

Fabric 160 x 300 cm