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Installation photographs by Cameron Crone
Amulet
Keystone Gallery
Los Angeles, 2024
PRESS RELEASE:
Keystone Gallery is pleased to announce Renata Daina Amulet on view June 2024. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery and presents handwoven tapestries, sculpture, and works on paper. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, June 8 from 6 - 8pm.
The language of textiles is translated throughout Daina’s tactile, mixed media practice. Labor-intensive techniques, such as hand weaving, rope coiling, and embroidery appear as foundation and embellishment on sculpture and tapestry. Geometric patterns adhering to the grid of horizontal and vertical threads meld into biomorphic forms mimicking organic growths and disintegrations.
Amulet explores the precious terrain between ancestral traditions and personal memories. Textiles handwoven by herself, her grandmother, and found fabrics made by unknown weavers are punctuated by painted and embroidered mark making. Intertwining natural fibers, such as raw linen, and synthetic threads emphasize symbiotic rather than dualistic notions. These soft talismans conjure earthly and otherworldly desires that are informed by new materialist theories and pre-Christian cosmologies.
Methods reflect spiraling life cycles and future (post)human landscapes. Laborious techniques such as coiling are repetitive and circular in motion; the technique mimicking our cyclical relationship with nature. Drawings based on familial weaving patterns appear like glitched out abstract geometries reveal the timeless knowledge of our ancestors. Handwoven textiles and repurposed materials move seamlessly between surface textures and multi-dimensional structures, shielding what surrounds us and what is within us.
Threads that Bind
Brea Gallery x Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center
Brea, California 2023
Threads that Bind explores the ways contemporary women artists have used textiles to give voice to the issues that bind us – both as individuals bound by gender restirctions and humanity bound together through common concerns.
Exhibiting artists include: Ashley Cole, Renata Daina, Anna Luisa Delgado, Carole Gelker, Annette Heully, Brittany Kiertzner, Lesley Kice Nishigawara, Melody Nunez, Lindsay Preston Zappas, Elise Vazelakis, Peggy Wiedemann, and Lorraine Woodruff-long.
Our Vision is Clouded
Warbling
Shoreditch, London, 2023
Within a collective feeling, inside an incessant haze, partially concealed memories, fog up an otherwise lucid state. Turning ideas through our time, as Earth rotates through space, whilst a fragmented life watches on, blindness as a shield from a forbearing fate.
Josh Alford, Andreas Behn Eschenburg, Job Boot, Ethan Caflisch, Alex Cohen, Renata Daina, Grau Del Grau, Matthias Fabre, Elizabeth Gourlay, Andrew Kernan, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Tzuhan Lin, Róisín O’Sullivan, Joshua Phillips, Mila Rae, Kit Reynolds, Alejandro Sintura, Filipa Tojal, Feiyi Wen and Linda Zagidulina
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