Antonio Pichillá’s participates in the exhibition Threads to the South at The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), curated by Anna Burckhardt Pérez. The exhibition features works by over twenty artists from ten countries, including videos, photographs, paintings, works on paper, and textiles developed between 1967 and 2023. Through these varied works, Threads to the South considers the medium of fiber as a tool for exploring the relationship between belonging, identity, and territory in Latin America.
Taking its name from Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña’s poem “I am climbing threads to the South,” the exhibition showcases how artists such as Gustavo Caboco, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Jorge Eielson, Anna Bella Geiger, Lidia Lisbôa, Hélio Oiticica, Marta Palau, Antonio Pichillá, and Vicuña, among others, have used fiber, thread, and textiles in disparate ways to chart connections to their roots.
