Often textile design is understood as a secondary medium, applied in the field of fashion, furniture, and interior design for its decorative or ornamental qualities.
In my current work, I intend to expand that perception of textile.
Instead, I use textile as a system and a state of mind.
For me, textile has an intrinsic material and narrative quality. It is both a structure and a construction method.
In that sense, I am partial to knitting: a single continuous thread that can generate a two or three-dimensional structure, through the simple repetition and succession of knots, somehow reminds me of biological cell reproduction.
This approach to textile allows me to work with seamless transitions from material, shape, and space, creating a meaningful bridge between the architectural and textile disciplines.
Fascinated with crafts, I intend to challenge textile techniques, often coupling them with other mediums in order to generate innovative hybrid materials. Before looking for new technologies I rather revisit analogue and traditional techniques, giving them a new importance by applying them in a different context and extending its processes.
However I am also researching the use of innovative textile technologies (like digital knitting or laser cutting), especially as a part of a process of other crafted elements.
My recent work comes from a fascination with the embodiment of Time in physical surfaces.
Surfaces can be understood as a general term, from clothing and skin to walls and floors that surrounds us. They all have the ability to register Time and actions applied to and around them. While Time undoubtedly has many facets, my focus is on two: 1/ the instantaneous (capturing an ephemeral moment) and 2/ the repetition (erosion process).
I set out to work with products and techniques that reveal traces of Time, and use them as a starting point in a series of projects. An important source of inspiration for those products are forensic techniques, methods of enhancing traces of all types of actions in order to make them visible or readable.
My work attempts to visualize or suggest the mystifying aesthetics of Time, giving subtle yet tangible value to our spatial and tactile environment and its constant changes.