CÉRET.- Musee d'art moderne de Céret recently opened the exhibition Teresa Lanceta: La mémoire tissée, the Spanish artist's first major survey presentation in France. Born in Barcelona in 1951, Lanceta adopted weaving as her main means of expression in the 1970s, fostering a deeply reciprocal engagement of artistic traditions and sustained dialogues across geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic contexts. This retrospective at Musée d'art moderne de Céret presents a vast panorama of more than seventy works including many unpublished pieces. It traces the artist's journey between textiles, paintings, drawings, ceramics and videos in the light of the theme of collective and individual memories.
Teresa Lanceta, B. 1951, BARCELONA, SPAIN
Over her five-decades long career, Teresa Lanceta has expanded the art of textile beyond practical enactments of materiality and towards a mode of epistemological inquiry. The patterns and compositions seen across her work are intrinsically founded upon the physical structure of the woven, sewn, and fiber form and the idea of technique as a universal code. As in her weavings, the repetitive interlocking of weft and warp constitutes the fundamental “open source” of language, generating unique, unscripted conversations of thread and color with each successive weave.
Lanceta’s methodology emerges from a deeply reciprocal engagement of artistic traditions and sustained dialogues across geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic contexts; most significantly, her time living in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona and her travels to the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. Across her career, which encompasses “co-authorships” with fellow artists and work with drawing, painting, and writing, Lanceta embraces the communicative potential of textile and its capacity to channel and transform global histories and systems of knowledge.
Teresa Lanceta was born in Barcelona in 1951 and attended university there amidst the fervent and tumultuous landscape of the 1968 global protests and student-led political organizing. By the early 1970s, Lanceta was living and working within the Gitano population of Barcelona’s Raval district, forging connections with the women of the community. It was during this time that Lanceta experienced a transformative encounter with a skein of cotton, an initiation that ultimately activated a series of material and conceptual concerns around weaving as a process of codes. For her weaving is a techné—"technical" knowledge dependent on a specific geographical, cultural and human context, be it, in her case, Barcelona’s Raval neighborhood, and the Middle Atlas in Morocco. Both of these places fed her fascination for women’s work and the non-verbal communication of stories and emotional bonds.
March 2nd, 2024 - June 2, 2024
