Eugenia Foguel
La fuerza de la suavidad

Eugenia Foguel is an artist, industrial designer, art director, stage and costume designer. She was the winner of the Fellowship PATA-ACE-PANAL 2017, for which she traveled to Poland to develop an education residency at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi during July and August of the same year.

THE STRENGTH OF SOFTNESS (by Eugenia Foguel)

The braid is the first knit that women learn when we are kids. It is a weave that we do to ourselves, with ourselves, taking our hair as a fiber.

In an act of synthesis, but also of repetition, I invoke all the women that work, worked and will work in the art of weaving. I invoke them through the braid as a symbol of femininity. I invoke them with braids that, instead of falling gently, they appear standing up, as symbol of power, as a flag of strength.

This work is an intervention to a machine to talk about women. It is an experimental tribute to crafts and female power.