Collective residencies / Weaving a web is akin to embroidering a cosmos / Olot
ANA VIVERO
From Monday, 26 May 2025 to Friday, 30 May 2025
Bio
Her artistic practice focuses on the intersection between art and ecology. In 2022, she conceived and founded the collective Tornen les Esquelles, which takes an ecofeminist and non-extractive design approach to the creation of contemporary textile art with local wool, exploring the relationship between livestock culture, public policies and artistic practices.
She has been the artistic director of the exhibition "Placenta" at the Aurèlia Muñoz Aerial Workshop (Grau-Garriga Gallery, 2023) and "Pastoral Futures: The Migrations of Wool" (MATERFAD and Barcelona Design Museum, 2023). She is co-author of the book Diari de Camp (2022), which documents Tornen les Esquelles' experience in the Lab Collserola project (EINA Work, 2022). Within the framework of the Manifesta 15 Biennial, she continued with the artistic direction of the projects "Banquet per Collserola" (Torre Negra, Sant Cugat, 2023) and "CALL" (Three Chimneys, Sant Adrià, 2024).
Project
Prior to the residency at Faberllull Olot, Ana will partner with Prem Puig, a shepherd from Mieres, on working with the wool from his flock. The project will explore how wool can be used in contemporary artistic practices and investigate its role in agroecological systems. Together they will make a felt piece to be embroidered collectively. Through this experience, Ana and Prem seek to strengthen the link between textile art and the local livestock culture, opening up new possibilities for future collaborations.
Spending a week in Olot was, for me, an experience of pause, listening and expansion. I arrived with a research focus on textile practices and found myself in a deeply fertile human and natural landscape.
I met women connected to textiles with whom I continue to build relationships and networked collaborations. I also met Prem Puig, a shepherd in Mieres, whose fine, clean and soft wool opened up new possibilities for the work we've been developing as a group. We shared conversations with a shearer known as "el Mussol" (the Owl), we walked with the volcano guide, and we were warmly welcomed and cared for by the entire hotel team, as well as by Pepa and Andreu, who accompanied and supported us both practically and emotionally.
The visit to the Nyam Nyam space was another powerful point of connection. We hope to cultivate future relationships with others who also work from the land and view creation as a form of connection.
Faberllull offered a space for rest, reconnection and the possibility of weaving, within a short time, a very broad map of affinities.