Tangent Projects Studio Residency Spring/Summer 2023
For our Spring/Summer 2023 residency programme we were very happy to welcome Paula Jaime & Violeta Ortega Navarrete to Tangent Projects studios.
Many thanks to the selection team - Paloma Chavez Muente, Viola Menzendorff, Sejal Parekh and Jorge Sánchez.
Paula Jaime is a Colombian visual artist. Throughout her path of exploration and creation, she has encountered different mediums and practices that have enriched her own artistic language and broadened her vision of the world. Among the most recurrent she has embraced installation, sculpture with ceramics, soft materials such as textiles, and illustration.
Currently, Paula's work is centered around the body as a home. She approaches this theme from the perspective of a migrant, where the body and the few belongings that accompany one become the only place of belonging and safety. She explores this concept by creating garments made of ceramics that serve as objects of action, activating new ways of inhabiting unknown spaces. These garments have a dual purpose: to clothe the body and to serve as tools for building utopian spaces.
Paula's work moves between traditional sculptural art with ceramics and interactive live art, where the artist or the viewer can enter into a more playful dialogue with the pieces.
Violeta Ortega Navarrete was born in Mexico City and studied Literature and Textile Design. She has specialised in artisanal textile techniques such as tapestry weaving, gobelin, felting, embroidery, flat weaving and knitting, among others. She employs these traditionally feminine techniques to address topics such as the exploration of the inner world, contemplation, and self-knowledge through the act of weaving and experimenting with textiles.
Violeta is interested in exploring themes related to memory, the feminine universe, and the healing power of art. She creates images, objects, or textiles that serve as assimilations of the processes she experiences - which remain as testimonies and documents of the passage of time in her personal story.
In 2020, Violeta co-founded Islera, an independent space for artistic experimentation and cultural cooperation located in the La Merced neighborhood of Mexico City.
To coincide with Paula & Violeta’s exhibition project, Lugares Íntimos, we are continuing our collaboration with Trio Editorial to produce a zine publication - click here to see Paula & Violeta’s zine or visit Tangent Projects to pick up your free printed copy.