guajira

Community: Wayu Iwouya
Leader: Cecilia Acosta
Technique: Tapestry - Gualdrapa on horizontal loom.

COSMIC GUAJIRA

A night in La Guajira is a surreal dream, I think this is partly the reason why the Wayuu maintain a permanent dialogue with their origins. COSMIC GUAJIRA is a perception of the “cosmos” on my part, an exercise in geometric abstraction that they very well know how to do and represent in all their creations. They are pieces where mysticism, ancestral knowledge and sacred geometry are mixed: it is as if for them weaving is to trap the information of the cosmos and manifest it with apparent simplicity in a complex fabric.