Paloma Ludueña
The Size of a Hug

Paloma Ludueña is an artist born in Santa Fe and raised in La Rioja, who, after spending some years in Córdoba, lives in Buenos Aires. Present at ´ace thanks to the Semillero 2024 grant, awarded in collaboration with the Williams Foundation, Paloma came to our studio to produce a site-specific textile installation.

Her coming and going as a daily habit permeates all her practices. Her last years she spent in Córdoba were strongly influenced by the close relationship she maintained with the small flat in which she lived, of which the last two were open to the public as an exhibition space and art gallery. From the most private to the quasi-public, Paloma rethought the conventional boundaries of a house/household, and her home, its context and her practice became recurring themes of interest.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I situate my practice as the third variable in an equation of complementary forces between bodies and architectures. An affective pulse with the intention of interceding and transforming spaces. I use fabric to embrace, to be, to insist and to inhabit. I find in repetition a wisdom specific to the moment and place that surpasses the limits of the latter two. I relate to weaving not only as materiality but also as a logic of thought. I believe in everyday discourse as a theoretical framework and a storehouse of raw material and in contradiction as a formal posture.