Three Artists Explore Care, Memory, and Colonial History at Villa Strauli
The group exhibition 'The Law of Origin' at Villa Strauli in Switzerland features works by Eveline Cantieni, Camila Rodriguez Triana, and Lorena Gutiérrez Camejo. Each artist uses distinct materials—adhesive bandages, newspaper pages, metallic thread, and patchwork fabric—to address themes of care work, cultural memory, indigenous cosmology, colonial history, and collective trauma. The show is part of the writer's residency experience, which also included a gathering of artists from Atelier Mondial at Villa Strauli, where residents from Brazil, Canada, Taiwan, Colombia, and Japan shared their practices.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'The Law of Origin' at Villa Strauli in Switzerland.
- Features artists Eveline Cantieni, Camila Rodriguez Triana, and Lorena Gutiérrez Camejo.
- Materials include adhesive bandages, book pages, newspaper, metallic thread, and patchwork fabric.
- Themes: care work, cultural memory, indigenous cosmology, colonial history, resistance, collective trauma.
- Camila Rodriguez Triana's work uses embroidery on Colombian newspaper economics pages referencing Mhuysqa myths and Spanish colonisation.
- Eveline Cantieni's 'Klöppelspitze' is a weblike assemblage of bandage lacework addressing invisible labour of caregiving and domestic work.
- Atelier Mondial artists in residency visited Villa Strauli for a gathering.
- Residents from Brazil, Canada, Taiwan, Colombia, and Japan participated.
- The writer reflects on creative osmosis and collective reading of personal narratives.
- The post originally appeared on Take Art Magazine.
Entities
Artists
- Eveline Cantieni
- Camila Rodriguez Triana
- Lorena Gutiérrez Camejo
Institutions
- Villa Strauli
- Atelier Mondial
- Take Art Magazine
Locations
- Switzerland
- Brazil
- Canada
- Taiwan
- Colombia
- Japan
- Basel