URBAN WEAVES

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“Andrea Garcia uses items considered waste to extract its inherent value, which has been buried by use and time in them. The artist assigns a proper and worth use to elements that society rejects, this transformation has a role in both the artistic and social context. 

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Andrea García's work could not be more accurate in its contents and reflections. Her work is simultaneously original and  ambitious, and moves, as it corresponds artistically in this century, between the coordinates of the aesthetic and the sociological. Aesthetically each work implies  considerations of scale, weight, materials, color, texture etc., to form a harmonious and attractive whole. It is also formally original in its execution and the result reflects the other part of her work, its content.

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Garcia is an innate weaver and her cross-linking of threads results in a textile whose  wefts and warps, coated with gold, silver, or copper foil, illuminate themselves by the inherent luster of casted leaf, while falling fluidly over some obstacles that presents it’s three-dimensionality. The weaves of waste materials on the other hand, especially those made of plastic, remain static on the walls or arranged in the manner of sculptures, becoming true concentrations of luster, in tractive swarms of lights and reflections.

 

Her work is visually seductive, conceptually restless and, most importantly, deeply pertinent in her purpose of raising awareness not only about the environmental and the social damage that the consumer society involve, but also about the possible utilitarian prolongation  of waste and its creative possibilities. For the artist, waste is a reflection of our social networks and therefore, perfectly transformable”. 

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Eduardo Serrano.

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