Adriana Lugones
Imaginary Cartography

After her passage through academic art education, Adriana Lugones (born in Mexico and Argentine naturalized), encountered embroidery in 2019. Motivated by the memories of her childhood, by the daily landscape of the streets and her hometown, these elements would later become a constituent part of her work. Afterwards, in 2021, she received the Creation Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which allowed her to find and immerse herself in the relationship between the world of textiles, paper and drawing. Her work of reconstruction, identity and materiality allowed her to generate a link between artistic and artisanal work and a poetic language. Since then, the abstract and organic landscape became his main theme, allowing her a delicate intimacy immersed in the fusion of the trace register. After several residencies and her constant search and experimentation, she allowed herself to create a series of textile collages that add elements of drawing and embroidery.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My approach to drawing arose from the interest of creating with my hands from different materials that can be manipulated, feeling and recording the strength and mood. Over time, this search led me to the path of textile art, and from there began my exploration and experimentation with the universe of paper, of textile , and their merging with the work of drawing. Organic drawings in which the materials are intertwined, are folding, are coming out, are growing. Drawing constantly helps me rethink myself: who am I, where do we come from, where are we going? It is as if I were interweaving ideas with textures/wefts and transparencies. It is to see how those lines transform, grow and build -a landscape- on the plane.

Pieces that are born from the selection of simple and everyday materials to re-emerge in a new meaning starting from their own dye, transmuting then into new structures that merge into layers upon layers. Works that are linked to the minimum, created with the participation of the body, of craftsmanship. Each one of them constitutes unique and unrepeatable pieces creating landscapes that lead to an intimate and imaginary place, reconstructing a new history from the trace. Very long processes that lead to uncertain paths. Each work has to do with studying it and seeing what it needs. Landscapes that are not from here, from nowhere at all, and from everywhere a little bit. Records that visualize what we have been and what we will be, folding us into our whole being.