Tsufwelej Collective reconfigures textiles as a means of resistance, memory, and transformation. The project connects ancestral knowledge with contemporary practices, blurring the boundaries between art and craftsmanship. Through the collaboration between Fidela Flores, Candelaria Aaset, and Martín Churba, the project generates an intercultural framework where weaving becomes a living language.
Tsufwelej Collective connects ancestral memories and the cosmic geometries of the Wichí people with contemporary textile processes and imagery. Together, we transform neo-ancestral chaguar weavings into hybrid surfaces that act as portals between worlds and times.
This project invites us to understand weaving as an ancestral practice that not only produces objects, but also fabricates knowledge and connects worlds. The intervened textiles, with their metallic sheen and apparent "glitch"—like a digital error or noise—juxtaposed with the ancestral geometric patterns, create a visual tension that reflects the fusion of the traditional and the contemporary. The plot that unfolds in this collaboration not only weaves new visual forms but also new possibilities for understanding, recognizing the power of interculturality as a network of shared knowledge and experiences.
The name Tsufwelej evokes the act of connecting, of embracing. Like the yica stitch technique, which holds the thread in intertwined connection points, our work connects knowledge, territories, and temporalities.
Linked as an embrace.