For Bienalsur in 2025, I was asked to make work from shawls woven by Original Mexican communities. I spent time speaking with some of these women, looking for the axis point as which our lives could meet. As they spoke about their shawls, I began to see the fabric as something of a second skin or extension of the body, a protection from the elements, an emancipation for work as they held their babies in its folds, a fabric that strengthened each time it was washed with a stone, that was passed down the generations or wrapped around the body at the end of life.

This film documents the multifarious ways a traditionally woven shawl can be worn. Viewed sequentially, it becomes like a dance set to a prayer written the artist to Mexican artist Ana Hernandez. These words (translated into Zapotec and Spanish), linger in the intersection of the two characters, as artists, as global sisters and as women.

Translated by Greta de León and Jose Angel Santiago