Gaucho braiding: resilience, sustainability and worldview.

The sustainability ethics are challenging the use of leather, but the waste from the fast-fashion industry ends up in open-air dumps, usually located in countries that produce the raw material. What is the role of art and design in providing intersectional matter ethics? How can post-industrial leather be given back its symbolic meaning? What is the textile contribution to expose the post-colonial entanglement, through narratives beyond cartographic borders that promote cultural diversity and empathise with the environment? 

Crafted by and for the man and his horse, which is very unusual in the traditional textile world, it agencies from the “gauchos” marginality to the South American patriotic imagery by the end of the 19th century, when it took a special part within the regional identity construction. This entangled process can’t be detached from the extractivist policies as the land usurpation, and the cattle and horse introduction, a framework that led ours to a territory in emergency.

Lectures:

2025 - Regenerate! Symposium. Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), Maastricht, Netherlands.

2024 - Intra-Action Symposium, An intra-sectional approach to the design of possible, probable and preferable futures . Eina Univeristy. Barcelona, Spain.