Needles in the air

Shradha Kochhar is a textile artist best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’. Her work is at an intersection of material memory, cotton legacies and intergenerational healing. Focused on generating a physical archive of personal and collective south Asian narratives, her art is linked to women’s work, invisible labour and loss. Her work has been shown at the Melbourne Museum and Houston Centre for Contemporary Craft among others and is featured in New York Times, British Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and others.

Alejandro Moreno Marín studied industrial design and specialised in photography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2016). He has edited books, made clothes, designed objects and painted streets. Everything that has occupied his time revolves around the narrative possibilities of the image and the exploration of media and materials. She has participated in group exhibitions in Bogotá and London (2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024) and solo exhibitions in Bogotá and Medellín (2023). His photographic work has been reviewed in editorial publications such as the Photographic Museum of Humanity (2019), Revue 6 mois (France, 2021) and Yogurt Magazine (Italy, 2020, 2021).

His current artistic work consists of creating works from textile materials. Through his work in photobook publishing, he has developed a special interest in the narratives that can be constructed through the interaction between the images and the material that supports them. Although the process of conceptualisation and the sketching methods he employs have much in common with traditional artistic practices such as drawing or painting, the use of techniques such as embroidery, weaving and patchwork imply specific possibilities determined by the material. Transitioning from paper fibres to textile fibres means being open to surprise, as the very nature of textiles conditions and determines the characteristics of the image.

His work is nourished by his sensitive experience; he does not look for outstanding events or issues, but rather explores the extraordinary in the everyday. His subjects of interest include religious iconography, material culture and popular graphic production. He finds in everyday materials and techniques an important input for the creation of his works, seeking to re-signify their artistic value and to propose new forms of application and interaction with them. By employing techniques traditionally associated with the home, such as embroidery and weaving, he aims to expand conventional narratives about these methods.

Puntada Bastarda is the project in which Elena Rodríguez unites her two passions, embroidery and music. At the beginning of his career in the graphic arts sector, his career was linked to various projects within the Biscayan music scene. With this project, Elena manages to transmit, stitch by stitch, the passion for the records that have marked her life and with which she enjoys so much. He currently participates in different projects organized by Bokashi.