ojekuaa’yva

This trio of paintings is rooted in labor, memory, and the meeting of two worlds.

Each piece is painted on trapo rejilla, a woven fiber cloth traditionally made in Ybycuí, where my mother was born. These fabrics are usually used for cleaning or absorbing, but in their texture I saw beauty, precision, and care. By adding color, I wanted to bring out what was already there, the love and thought in their making.

Materiality is central to my practice. Every material carries a story, a place, a memory. The trapo rejilla connects me to Ybycuí, to my mother, to a lineage of making. In dialogue with it, I used pieces of torrefied ash wood salvaged from a Montreal workshop where public benches are built. Wood once meant for collective use now enters a more personal space.

Together, these materials hold something of my own condition, between Paraguay and Montreal, between public and private, between necessity and expression.