The skin as a “body wrapper” it can be a shelter that delimits the outside and the inside, a contact surface or a shield that protects the body. The skin in the divided world in which we live has, in its variety of color, a factor that positions, delimits, rejects, discriminates and comments on the many injustices and violence that need to be combated, rejected in the social relations. These questions made me want to be able to wear the skin of the other to feel the weight of their experiences, the textures of their pains, the contours of stories,to understand their inheritances, their memories, their deceptions and stumbles and with she knows this narrative composed of fragments and traces written by time. Skin donation is a project I use the pantyhose as a constructive element as a starting point combined with other materials such as: sheep's wool, satin ribbons, seeds, objects, toys, textile fibers and yarns, among others. I combine differents tecnics like sewing, embroidery and weaving.
The pantyhose that I use in textile constructions were worn by other people, donated by friends, bought in second hand stores or belonged to me, in fact, it is an act impregnated with meaning, since it is understood as a device that links stories and memories. Memory is what constitutes us as historical subjects, situated, dated. The skin is also a memory and in this context, it dialogues with deep and complex issues such as identity, the feminine, the sense of belonging and ancestry.