ELLITSGAARD DIALOGUES WITH THE GEOGRAPHIES OF TEXTILE IN MEMORIA

The gallery Memoria presents Sensitive Structures across its two Madrid locations, the first exhibition in Spain by Trine Ellitsgaard (Virum, Denmark, 1957), an artist who has been developing her practice in Oaxaca for over two decades. Her adopted home has provided a space where she can engage in a dialogue that mediates between her Scandinavian origins and the richness of Mexican culture. From this conversation arises a tension that underpins her work and constitutes a line of exploration.

The exhibition brings together textiles, objects, and works on Japanese paper embroidered with horsehair. In all of them, fiber can be perceived as a structural element, but also as a record of memory and territory, forming a formal archive. Although Ellitsgaard engages with the modern tradition of textile art, her gaze shifts toward the traditional embedded within indigenous Mexican practices. The result is a composition that blends Nordic design with the chromatic references of artisan communities.

Repetition exerts pressure on attention, while geometry contributes to the formation of the sublime. This materiality, conveyed through recycled and ancestral materials, advocates an ethical dimension while also exploring a human and, in some sense, experimental approach. In her Japanese paper works, the horsehair embroidery lends the surface a corporeal quality, a volume traversed by memory. Through the reinterpretation of certain traditional materials, the Danish artist expands her range toward new formal possibilities, revealing a body of work in which the strength of weaving reflects a distinctly symbolic character.

Trine Ellitsgaard. Sensitive Structures can be seen until May 2, 2026, at the two Memoria venues: Piamonte 19 (Centro) and Morenés Arteaga 18 (Carabanchel), Madrid, Spain.