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For me, working with textile fibers means honoring their materiality. The fibers embody the nature of the landscape, the physicality of the animal and plant bodies that gave rise to them, and they bear the imprint of my own body as I reconfigure them.
I am interested in the possibility of (the creation of) textiles as spaces of convergence for sharing, conversing, and building relationships of care and reciprocity with other beings and with the material world that sustains us.
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 and embroidery, among others. Violeta takes up these traditionally feminine techniques to address topics such as 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 works with materials such as wool, natural fibres and dyes to explore themes that may lead to reflection on how we could relate to our environment and other beings through care and empathy.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Textile Design from the School of Design at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico and a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
In 2020, she co-founded Islera, an independent space for artistic experimentation and cultural cooperation located in Mexico City.
She has shown her work at:
• The Mares of Diomedes, group exhibition, Surgery Gallery, London, December 2025
• Myths for our times, group exhibition, Lofos Art Project, Athens, November 2025
• Weaving waters, group exhibition, Tangent Projects, Barcelona, October 2025
• Continuity NART Artist Residency, Estonia, June-July 2025
• Practices of Care, KAIR Košice Artist Residency, Slovakia, April-May 2025
• Textile encounter Hilaku, Zaragoza, Spain, November 2024
• Grounding, Domatio, Athens, July 2024
• Mirada Unificada,Tangent Projects, Barcelona, 2023
• Art Fair Estación Material, Guadalajara, Mexico 2023
• Connected Women, Rosa Gorila, in Mexico City 2023
• Everything Solid Vanishes, Torre Andrade, Guanajuato, Mexico 2022
• Enstasis, solo exhibition, Islera, Mexico City 2022
• Second Collective Intervention by Aurora Urban Art, Casa Lacustre, Mexico City 2022
• Fury Bonfire, 2 Caprichosas collaboration with Islera, Mexico City 2022
• EN(SER)RADXS, La Nevera virtual gallery, 2021
• Daughters of Venus, digital exhibition, Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico 2021
• Collective Art and Border Spaces (FAR): Body, Politics and Environment, La Empírica Gallery, Granada, Spain 2018
• Collective Women in Migrant Action, Espacio Metáfora, Seville, Spain 2017