Sarabeth Triviño Mapu: Sacred Land
Sarabeth Triviño, Larmes (détail), 2021. Photo : Eduardo Bustillos
With Mapu: Sacred Land, Sarabeth Triviño invites the public to rediscover the traces of our ancestors and to reaffirm our origins and identity. For the artist, the act of knitting allows her to interweave various stories of her family, her past and her present, in order to build a new identity as an immigrant woman and to weave bonds of filiation and solidarity with the Mapuche people.
Even before entering the small gallery, the public is greeted by Ruka, a large textile installation evoking a traditional Mapuche house. In the gallery, beadwork is inspired by the cosmology of these people and their ancestral cultures. They are testimonies of a personal journey in which Triviño rediscovers her indigenous origins in her native Chile.
Her artistic practice is characterized by meticulous work that takes place over several hours, the temporal dimension of her beaded works acts as a metaphorical manifestation of time and transcendence. The works of Mapu: Sacred Land are at the crossroads of visual arts, arts and crafts. Crochet and macramé, techniques associated with women’s work, offer through their materiality a sensory experience that is also part of a contemporary feminist discourse.
The artist would like to thank the entire OBORO team, Eduardo Bustillos for his unconditional support, his family, and all those who, in one way or another, have accompanied him on his journey and especially his friend Bertrand Martin for his beautiful text dedicated to this exhibition.
Sarabeth Triviño, Larmes (détail), 2021. Photo : Eduardo Bustillos
Sarabeth Triviño is a textile artist of Chilean origin who lives and works in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. She became a professional artisan member of the Conseil des métiers d’arts du Québec in 2008 and in 2017, she completed her BFA in Visual and Media Arts at UQÀM and is currently a Master’s candidate in Fibers & Material Practices at Concordia University. For the past few years, she has been working as an artisan and visual artist, integrating crochet, macramé, knitting and embroidery techniques in her projects. Her textile art practice is inspired by environmental and social issues with feminist overtones.
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland
Sarabeth Triviño, Mapu: Sacred Land, 2022. Photo : Paul Litherland