Las que hilan memoria (Tejer la memoria entre Karrantza y Tánger) (Weavers of memory: between Karrantza and Tangier) is an artistic project that intertwines contemporary textile art, performance and biographical archives. It brings together large-scale tapestries, performative actions and an audiovisual archive based on the testimonies of women from the artist’s family who migrated, were born or lived in Tangier, during the Franco era and up until the late 1980s. The pieces will combine graphic techniques on textiles with the design and assembly of wooden structures, generating a crossover between gesture, word, material and landscape.

Laurita Siles (Marbella, 1981) is an artist and researcher. She lives and works in the Karrantza Valley, in Bizkaia, where she is developing the Mutur Beltz project, an initiative that combines art, agroecology, and contemporary design using wool from Carranzana sheep. She obtained her PhD with honours from the University of the Basque Country (2017). Her work is woven between the material memory of vanishing trades, the ruins of the rural world and ecological urgency. She does not understand artistic practice without context, without territory, without community. Siles weaves her career shaped by displacement and hybridity: residencies, exhibitions and projects in Iceland, Canada, Portugal, Greenland, Germany and France have left a trail of collaborations, publications and tapestries where the intimate and the political intertwine. Her work settles in spaces where knowledge is passed from body to body, in workshops, talks, kitchens and embroidery.