Teresa Lanceta: Tracing the threads, I find you
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is pleased to present Tracing the threads, I find you, a solo exhibition of work by Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta, on view from April 12 through May 17, 2025. This is Lanceta鈥檚 inaugural exhibition at the gallery, her first gallery show in the United States, and her first solo exhibition in New York. A public opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, April 12, from 6鈥�8pm.
Working since the 1970s, Teresa Lanceta has developed her textile practice into a vital mode of epistemological inquiry and collaboration. She views weaving as an 鈥渙pen source鈥� language with the capacity to transmit ancestral knowledge and techniques. Her work is grounded in the physical structure of the woven form; she does not follow specific patterns or outlines but allows a gestural intuition and the binary logic of warp and weft to guide her time spent at the loom. Building upon one another, the successive weaves culminate in unique, unscripted conversations of color and thread.
As a structural process manifesting across diverse textile traditions, Lanceta sees in weaving the radical potential to challenge the presupposed, conventional boundaries between art and craft, utility and aesthetics, and authenticity and iteration. Lanceta鈥檚 experiences living and working with nomadic communities in Barcelona鈥檚 Raval district and in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco furthered her interest in gendered labor, anonymous collectivity, and non-verbal narratives. These reciprocal engagements are foundational to the collective, research-based perspective that guides her methodology.
Tracing the threads, I find you includes works from the 1980s through 2024, tracing an intertwined chronology of life and art. Lanceta first visited to Morocco in the early 鈥�80s with the anthropologist Bert Flint, and there discovered the collective, time-honored techne of the Berber women weavers. She was drawn specifically to the Middle Atlas tradition for its greater degree of textile abstraction and plurality of woven forms鈥攊ncluding the diamond grid, the void, the zigzag, and the rhombus. Triangular and rhomboid structures in particular remain fundamental to Lanceta鈥檚 compositions, as a metaphor for openness, mobility, and expanding horizons. Her earlier large-scale tapestries LLUVIA EN SEVILLA (1987) and YUTE (1987) integrate the hermetic geometry and abstracted repetition of Middle Atlas weavings with figurative motifs to invoke an alternate, centerless imagining of space and time.
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Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is pleased to present Tracing the threads, I find you, a solo exhibition of work by Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta, on view from April 12 through May 17, 2025. This is Lanceta鈥檚 inaugural exhibition at the gallery, her first gallery show in the United States, and her first solo exhibition in New York. A public opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, April 12, from 6鈥�8pm.
Working since the 1970s, Teresa Lanceta has developed her textile practice into a vital mode of epistemological inquiry and collaboration. She views weaving as an 鈥渙pen source鈥� language with the capacity to transmit ancestral knowledge and techniques. Her work is grounded in the physical structure of the woven form; she does not follow specific patterns or outlines but allows a gestural intuition and the binary logic of warp and weft to guide her time spent at the loom. Building upon one another, the successive weaves culminate in unique, unscripted conversations of color and thread.
As a structural process manifesting across diverse textile traditions, Lanceta sees in weaving the radical potential to challenge the presupposed, conventional boundaries between art and craft, utility and aesthetics, and authenticity and iteration. Lanceta鈥檚 experiences living and working with nomadic communities in Barcelona鈥檚 Raval district and in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco furthered her interest in gendered labor, anonymous collectivity, and non-verbal narratives. These reciprocal engagements are foundational to the collective, research-based perspective that guides her methodology.
Tracing the threads, I find you includes works from the 1980s through 2024, tracing an intertwined chronology of life and art. Lanceta first visited to Morocco in the early 鈥�80s with the anthropologist Bert Flint, and there discovered the collective, time-honored techne of the Berber women weavers. She was drawn specifically to the Middle Atlas tradition for its greater degree of textile abstraction and plurality of woven forms鈥攊ncluding the diamond grid, the void, the zigzag, and the rhombus. Triangular and rhomboid structures in particular remain fundamental to Lanceta鈥檚 compositions, as a metaphor for openness, mobility, and expanding horizons. Her earlier large-scale tapestries LLUVIA EN SEVILLA (1987) and YUTE (1987) integrate the hermetic geometry and abstracted repetition of Middle Atlas weavings with figurative motifs to invoke an alternate, centerless imagining of space and time.
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