//Textile artist
//June-July 2025
Adriana was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She has a degree in Textiles and Fine Arts from the University of the Andes and a Master's degree in Fashion Design from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan, Italy. For seven years she lived in the People's Republic of China, where she worked in design, manufacturing and quality control in the textile industry, while developing her personal artistic practice in illustration and creative workshops for children.
She currently works as a professor in the Department of Design at the University of the Andes. In addition to her teaching work, she has collaborated with Artesanías de Colombia on projects to strengthen the productive capacities of artisans in various regions of the country, through workshops on textile techniques, design and co-creation processes. Her main interest lies in the narratives produced through textiles and how crafts become a means of expression and social storytelling that can empower communities. She seeks to understand the connection between manual crafts and emotional well-being, and how these practices can generate spaces for connection. In recent years, she has merged her passion for textiles and illustration, developing mini-collections of embroidered garments that integrate both disciplines.
El Boga Residence
The ‘Reconfigurations’ project focuses on exploring social and cultural narratives through textiles. For her personal project, Adriana will explore the themes of grief, loss and memories, focusing on the brain processes that occur when someone close is no longer there. She offers creative workshops inspired by the imaginations and memories of the participants, and the translation of the images into textile techniques. The workshops will cover topics such as composition, colour theory, translation of images into pixels and the development of modules for textiles.
Contact
@labaracaldo
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