Indigenous Argentinian weavers Claudia Alarcon and members of the Silat Collective carry on tradition, recall their ancestors and convey messages from dreams and the subconscious with textiles featuring abstracted designs from the natural world. Now on view at James Cohan Gallery in Tribeca, their woven panels made by harvesting, breaking down, pounding, spinning and dying the native chaguar plant connect visually to modernist weaving by the likes of Annie Albers, who in the mid-20th century visited and collected textiles from the Salta region, home to Alarcon and the Silat Collective. Here, a textile titled ‘The Three Marias’ resembles abstracted human figures joined by one fabric. (On view in Tribeca through May 10th).
