Ana Teresa Barboza

Ana Teresa Barboza (Lima, 1981), uses weaving and other traditional artisan techniques to convey to the viewer a meditative and powerful observation of everything that surrounds them. Initially her work had to do with the awareness of the human body, representing it as a sectioned structure, recomposed and decorated through sewing and embroidery to reflect on its relationship with others.
Subsequently, that gaze moves towards her environment, to focus on the links that unite her with others and her work inflects to acquire a more social character, opening up to reflect on the transformation of nature and the relationship or contact of humans with it, for which she uses embroidery and weaving to make a parallel between manual work and the processes of nature, creating structures with the thread similar to those made by a plant, for example. In some works, experiments are simulated that seek to recompose nature with another order, teaching us to observe it again.
Her actual work seeks to relearn the work of artisans to restore contact with the manual and bodily processes with which heritage, culture and images have been taking shape and show the traces left by the body and nature on them.