FUNCTION AND MEMORY IN THE TEXTILES OF MACARENA YÁÑEZ
Macarena Yáñez, Macay (Santiago, Chile, 1982) proceeds with meticulousness to the creative elaboration of textiles that hide numerous analyses. The scraps of clothing that left behind their main function, recover from the hand of the Chilean woman an ancient mandate as a record of oral tradition and become a tool of transmission, but also of reflection of the place of the human being within a vilified natural ecosystem.
The action and the result of Macay's work can be seen with a semiotic reading, even just by landing on the proposal of the material, a recycling that calls for sustainability, but that also encloses previous stories. It is this point of reference on which the proposal he exhibits in Sobre hilos, at 3 Punts Galería, is built, and with which he deploys a whole narrative inertia that encloses from the current discourse itself to the memory of each part that now forms a whole.
This collage that appears is also a sublimation of dialogue, of the interconnection of distant stories that find their point of union in the images that Macay constructs. Each canvas, both in its form and in its strength, comes from a different background and environment, but is able to consensualize its purpose in the expressed form of nature. The flora and fauna that appears highlighted is that evocation that cries out for the coexistence between nature and humanity, and that is thrown into a certain criticism and sarcasm by the current relationship, far from a coexistence between equals.
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Macarena Yáñez. INMERSIÓN NATURAL, 2024. Collage textil, 170 x 230 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. CONEXIÓN NEUROBIOLÓGICA CON LA NATURALEZA, 2024. Collage textil. 130 x 90 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. FLORECEMOS ENTRE CEMENTO. 2024. Collage textil. 100 x 100 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. RITMO EN NUESTRO ECOSISTEMA, 2023. Collage textil. 190 x 150 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. SIEMPRE FLOTAMOS BAJO EL MAR, 2024. Collage textil. 140 x 100 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. SENDERISMO NATURAL, 2023. Collage textil. 155 x 165 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
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Macarena Yáñez. ECOTERAPIA. 2025. Collage textil. 142 x 140 cm. Única. Cortesía de 3 Punts Galería
With experience in painting and muralism, Macay's transition towards her current production is also remarkable, having found in textiles a greater freedom and technical facility to create reflective frames that understand the necessary space to rethink a new contract with a necessary nature.
Macarena Yáñez. Sobre hilos can be visited until March 1st at 3 Punts Galería, Consell de Cent, 317, Barcelona (Spain).
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