Bordados compartidos - La Havana

Bordados compartidos

With Heloisa, Wichy, Erika, Roberto, Isabel, Yoni, Matias and others.

The Bordados compartidos (Shared embroderies) keep the traces of daily wanderings through the streets of Havana. Three weeks long I let myself be guided by chance, curiosity and encouters, collecting impressions and observations that I note down directly onto fabric through embroidery. The gesture is comparable to making entries in a travel diary, noting observations through sketches, but here with the tool of embroidery.

Like a magnet that accumulates what it finds in its path, the Bordados compartidos accumulate inscriptions as the days go by. Along the way, I seek contact with people and engage them in long conversation. I ask them how they see the things I see. I invite them, as protagonists, to inscribe their feelings about the situation of the country and everyday life onto the same fabrics - whether by embroidering, drawing, writing, or collaging. Their contributions may be delicate or raw, quick or patient, critical or loyal. They touch, overlap, or contradict the embroideries. Unpredictable collages emerge, shaped by several hands, gazes and perspectives. The Bordados compartidos tell of unlikely encounters, conversations and time spent together – but also of differences and distances