Collective residencies / Weaving a web is akin to embroidering a cosmos / Olot
TAU LUNA ACOSTA
From Monday, 26 May 2025 to Friday, 30 May 2025
Bio
Born in Medellin (Colombia), Tau Luna Acosta is an artist, mediator, curator and researcher. She has a degree in Art History, Sound Art and Cultural Studies with a queer and feminist focus. She has been a fellow of the PEI (MACBA) and WHW Akademija. Tau Luna Acosta has designed mediation programmes for institutions such as the Miró Foundation and the CCCB, and participates in collective mediation initiatives at the Barcelona Lumbre pro-migrant group and at Casa Pagarina.
Co-founder of the Academy of Electronic Arts of Bogotá, she has taken part in exhibitions and residencies across Latin America and Europe. She currently resides in La Escocesa and engages in Selvagem, a cycle of studies on life led by Ailton Krenak. Her work has featured in collections in Santiago de Chile and Bogotá.
Tau Luna Acosta's practices investigate human migration as an event linked to colonial violence, as well as listening and shared memory with migrant beings more than humans through the intersection between ancestral, scientific and intuitive technologies.
Project
Through her practice, she explores textiles as a craft of minimal gestures of resistance that embodies slowness, collectivity and active listening. Through traditional and contemporary techniques, she uses weaving and embroidery as a means to narrate collective memories and visualise data, facts and genealogies linked to territorial and collective processes. She also employs them as an excuse to produce meeting and collective-learning spaces.
The residency at Faberllull was a delightful surprise and a true joy for the heart. Everything, from the moment we arrived and were warmly welcomed by Andreu and Pepa, who were always on hand to make everything smooth and heartfelt, to the impeccable curatorial work of Amor Rumor, which brought together a group of people with powerful and wonderfully diverse textile practices to turn the shared time into a space for collaboration and mutual learning. It was a week filled with warmth and a special connection to the environment, to the incredible landscape of La Garrotxa and to the people who care for it and work based on their lived experience of the place, with its specific cultural, economic and environmental challenges and needs. I am very grateful to have been part of this space.