Irene Trapote
6 May 2024 – 31 January 2025
Irene Trapote, multidisciplinary artist and independent researcher from Asturias.
Her proposals are based on the territory and the relationship of bodies with it, exploring the communication between culture and environment, and tend to focus on territorial management, the present civilizational and eco-social crisis, situated knowledge, knowledge of the environment and the search for autonomy, taking the rural environment as a place of action and from a critical position with the dynamics that have been given to us in contemporary times.
She works from the singularity, from a specific and localised situation or problem, using audiovisual, performance, collective practice, textile art or intervention in the environment, among other media. Recently, she has been exploring textile art and collective practice more closely, in the form of workshops and community work spaces.
Project in residence
Nuedu
Nuedu is a textile crafts project located in Asturias that proposes the introduction of net weaving in the world of fashion. “Nuedu” means “knot” in Asturian, which comes from the Latin “nodus”: joint or link.
It is an artisan proposal that defends the handmade, slow production times and a healthy relationship with the environment from fashion; thinking of craftsmanship as an alternative to the destructive “fast fashion”.
The knot is something bound, tied, a fabric that becomes collective; that generates connection. Thus, the aim is to weave a bridge between artistic practice and craftsmanship, starting with research into women’s crafts and passing through material research: net weaving.
Net weaving is a technique in danger of disappearing, as there is a great lack of generational replacement in this trade due to the precarious employment to which the weavers are exposed.
At Nuedu we explore the use of mesh weaving as it is made by net weavers in the fishing world. We propose to open up a new artisanal field in Asturias and provide diversification options for this technique.
