Art
Standing on Porous Rock
Water gestures
Mining for Swimming
Soft Eye of the Hurricane
Weave
Knit
Fiber Optic
Limestone Jacquard
Knitwear
Design
Haverhill, Brand Design
Anthropologie, Textile Design
Of Soiled Bodies, Curator
About
Are.na
Vero lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Born in 1998 in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Mexico City followed by South Florida, she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2022 with a BFA in textile design.
“As a member of Venezuela’s ongoing diaspora, I am deeply interested in the narratives we construct when we come from places that no longer exist—or are in the process of disappearing. My work explores my family’s lineage of migration, and the motion of being repeatedly uprooted and relying on second-hand accounts—photographs and stories—to understand my birth country, Venezuela. Currently, I am committed to expanding my practice in pulled-thread lace on printed fabrics, with a particular focus on "Calado," a technique native to the Canary Islands, where my grandparents were born. By employing Calado as an image-making tool and incorporating lens-based media, I engage with the fragmented realities of memory, negotiating the impossible spaces between absence and presence. The act of destruction and reconstruction inherent to the technique allows me to manipulate images, while the gaps in the fabric offer a space to mend, rebuild, and reimagine what has been collectively lost.”