Josefina Concha E.
K29645
The Light, 2023
sewing on canvas
17 x 23 1/2 in
JOSEFINA CONCHA E.
Artist Josefina Concha E. (b.1985, Santiago de Chile) is master of textile art, who brings forward centuries of Latin American heritage through a communion with craft and nature. By using elements such as skin, hair, plants and animals as initial inspiration, she has found in the thousands of layers of woven thread the possibility of painting and drawing without relying on those mediums, and instead echoing a tradition that has been passed on through generations of women. Nature is her main source of inspiration, its resemblance to the human body, the exuberance of color and form, the vulnerability of live matter, the visual and symbolic richness of the elements.