In URUMU, Bravo demonstrates her ongoing interest in how the word “textile” relates to its etymological cousins––text/texture/technique––which have become interrelated over the course of history. The communities of the Sierra Nevada, despite their tense and tenuous dialogue with the modern world, have been able to preserve their ancient rituals and traditions that rely on other ways of relating to nature. The threats of my knowledge comes from before, and have been intertwining since I was a girl.” In the area in which they live, which they share with the Wiwa and Kogi peoples, as stunning mountain range that forms a distinct geographic border adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, textiles are both practical and symbolically significant. As one member of this indigenous community has stated, “the universe that shelters us is a spiral dwells in the bottom of my backpack. For the Arhuaco (Ika) people who inhabit the Sierra Nevada de santa Marta region, however, the motifs have a very specific meaning, each element symbolizing a fundamental idea about their culture. For Colombians, they will evoke mochilas arhuacas, the Arhuaco bags which are ubiquitous throughout the country and are also popular tourist souvenir. For people who grew up outside of Colombia, they might seem like abstract patterns, possibly recalling the graphic motifs of an indigenous South American culture. The meaning of the virtual weavings will vary depending on the viewer. As the weaving process continues, the graphic image of the pattern slowly fades into a video that at the end reveals a view of an undetermined location, seemingly devoid of the faces of human beings. The resulting graphic “woven” image appears to constitute a text written in an unknown foreign language. At the same time and with the same irregular rhythm, weft “threads” move left and right, creating a weave. Intermittently, across three walls (the entirety of the viewer’s field of perception), “threads” shoot up and down creating a virtual warp.
Monika Bravo’s URUMU is a video installation that rapidly envelops the viewer in textile. Robert Blake : Symphasis (for the catalog of the exhibitiom 2000)įREQUENCY + REPETITION, CAB DE BURGOS, 2005: That which happens, Deborah Cullen, CAB 2005Ī tale of two times square, David Hunt, 2003 Monika Bravo’s URUMU, Alejandro Martin, Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers Vuelta por el universo por Beatriz Lopez, texto y entrevista curatorial NC-arte 2014, URUMU Sobre los Arche-types de Monika Bravo por Octavio ZayaīEATRIZ LOPEZ' URUMU ENGLISH TEXT AND INTERVIEW: July 2014, for NC-Arte Octavio Zaya on “Beyond Sense: On the ARCHE-TYPES of Monika Bravo” : Studies for musical notations, a project for ATLANTICA
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Download Pdf, go to link or scroll down:Įl tiempo como río y materialidad en su obra, Florencia San Martin, ARTNEXUS, 2017 By Octavio Zaya, Beatriz Lopez, Jose Roca, Deborah Cullen, Franklin Sirmans, David Hunt.
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