Students present haute couture designs at the Biennial
"It is no longer an artist whose ultimate goal is the production of objects, but a cultural producer who, having various languages and artistic strategies, generates a kind of multiple experience in the viewer," said Jesús Fuenmayor, General Curator of the XIV Cuenca Biennial when explaining the theme of the Biennial "Living Structures".
With these words in mind, students of the seventh cycle of Textile Design at the Universidad del Azuay designed and made different outfits to exhibit at the opening of the Biennial at the Pumapungo Museum.
To create these models, the Design teachers, Silvia Zeas and Silvia Narváez, asked their students to be inspired by movements of Contemporary Art and to develop them in less than two months.
For example, Samara Ochoa decided to orient her design with the Land Art movement. First, she made a skirt and decorated it with 320 natural rose petals, later, she made a blouse with 500 branches.
In the same way, Emilia Zárate used nature in her proposal, but she followed the poor art movement, which talks about nature, life and death.
On the other hand, Mariuxi Muñoz made Ecuador known with the help of a dress. Details of our history could be seen through the photographs of important figures such as Simón Bolívar or Rafael Correa, or through the techniques and materials used to demonstrate the evolution of textile art in Ecuador: the fabric of our ancestors and the plastic that is present today. in almost all of our clothes.
She said she wants to leave the audience with this question: "Do we really want our story to remain pain?"
UDA Correspondent
