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I conceive of textiles as witnesses to the corporeality of the animals, plants, and minerals involved in their production, as well as my own body in the act of weaving and constructing with fibers. In this sense, textiles become a living archive: a space where personal and collective memories, everyday gestures, and slow processes that resist immediacy are intertwined.
My practice focuses on honoring the materiality provided by our environment, using traditional techniques such as flat weaving, embroidery, and felting. I work mainly with natural fibers, both new and recycled, and I use traditional methods such as natural dyeing as a way of turning our gaze toward the means of production of the past, where the relationship with matter implies care, respect, and attention.
I am interested in exploring the possibilities of textiles as a bridge between people: as a space for conversation, for encounter, and for inhabiting our spaces and bodies. Through my artistic work, I seek to foster an experience of unity with our surroundings, prioritizing relationships of care and affirming, through textiles, an ethic of attention to 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 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 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 and with others.
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