Embroidery reinterprets history in the work of Victoria Villasana

The Mexican artist draws inspiration from the looms of her homeland to give a new approach to the convergence of cultures.

A single thread, taken like this, no matter how much it shines, if it is not woven, means nothing more than that, a thread. But for the Mexican artist Victoria Villasana , born in Guadalajara in 1982, it is the brush with which she materializes her works: collages that reimagine the historical framework from which both traditional culture and pop ideology draw.

Tradition as the guiding thread of Victoria Villasana's work

In an increasingly digitalized world, this artisan has taken her works to the streets, applying color in abundance to enormous fabrics with hyper-recognized iconography.

The threads, yarns and colors remind me of Mexico and Latin America, my traditional culture and my past.

Victoria Villasana

Victoria Villasana's embroidered art comes to galleries.

She has already managed to exhibit in museums such as the Phillips Collection in Washington , although it has been her geometry used in names of yesterday and today that has catapulted her to become a more than recognized name in the world of urban art: from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe or the Queen of England herself , Villasana understands that in art there must be a vindictive component. “This art is not only aesthetically beautiful. You open a dialogue with people, you launch a proposal. The expressive part of art serves as a catharsis of something very painful. I like people to interact with my works. That is the most surreal part, the work is never finished and may never be because it is ephemeral ,” she argues about her work .

I let the environment finish the piece, the air, the water, or a child passing by and pulling the threads. My works always remain open.

Victoria Villasana