ARCO Madrid 2023

This weaving made of natural materials (alpaca, wool, cotton) and industrial and urban materials (neon lights and truck lights) is characteristic of Kenia Almaraz Murillo's work, between traditional craft and modernity. It is her discovery of the city of Dubai during a recent trip that inspired her to create this luminous weaving that reproduces the verticality of a building. She relates this experience: "That evening, I let myself be guided by all the blue lights of the Marina and its immense buildings, which were for me like giant masks. I felt like I was walking across Easter Island or surrounded by stone totems floating on the ocean. I looked up at the sky, looking for the moon, and among those stars, one tower caught my eye. Torre Azul was born at that moment."

Kenia Almaraz Murillo's artworks are impregnated with South American myths and legends. With El Niño del caos (literally “The Child of Chaos”) she imagines a form of cosmogony. This weaving is for her a tribute to the universe, represented here in an abstract way by the figure of a "small child philosopher who endlessly builds and destroys the galactic matter"

This work is representative of the strong relationship that Kenia Almaraz Murillo has with nature. This weaving was inspired by the observation of the eagles path in the sky. For her, "these wonderful birds that fly over the sky are like spectacular shooting stars. They slowly descend from the sky to the earth and quietly observe the mountains." The neon represents both the light of these stars, as well as the flight of the bird over the horizon.  

Kenia Almaraz Murillo draws the motifs of her weavings from nature. In the work Caracol, a small neon, like an antenna of light, allows her to represent a snail in profile. Is also included in this weaving a tullma, traditional Bolivian pompom, in reference to her origins.

The weaving Antenitas, which means "little antennas" was imagined by Kenia Almaraz Murillo in memory of games she observed in Bolivia, where children mime little antennas above their heads in order to communicate. In addition to the artist's interest in the animal world, especially insects and ants, it is also the connection between the visible and the invisible represented by the antennas that inspired her for this weaving with vibratory patterns.

The weaving Antenitas, which means "little antennas" was imagined by Kenia Almaraz Murillo in memory of games she observed in Bolivia, where children mime little antennas above their heads in order to communicate. In addition to the artist's interest in the animal world, especially insects and ants, it is also the connection between the visible and the invisible represented by the antennas that inspired her for this weaving with vibratory patterns.