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MENTAL TERRITORIES, an installation by Margarita Pineda
...in a quick look
Margarita Pineda's "Mental territories" is an installation componed by work shirts or night-shirts and a hanger. These shirts are decorated with very detailed drawings and embroidery, that represent urban maps or building plans referring to the personal life of the artist.
The embroidery on of the shirt represents the plan of a restaurant, where Margarita was working. Another one represents the maps of the areas, where Maragarita was living and where she was employed, as a cleaning worker in the airport. The night shirt is decorated with a very precise groundplan of the house she's living in.
...as an experience
The light going through the filmy cotton of the shirts accentuates the meticulous lines of the hand-embroidery and the ethereal aspect of this apparently simple installation. The second approach goes to the details and the autobiographical accumulation of names, routes, builings and furniture. The superposition of the work clothes and those references brings us soflty to the conceptual approach Margarita develops in this work. Mental territories refers to a flat representation of diferent key places, that form part of the experience Margarita has lived as a worker and as an immigrant.
...and its intentions
Mental territories plays with clothes, that have a high signification for the artist. They stand for the workplaces she went to, when she had just arrived from Colombia to Spain. Those clothes are objects related to strong and special experiences and linked with geographical datas and representations. Through the embroidery, Margarita presents a narration of the daily routes she used to cover more or less intensely depending on the professional necessities.
Those shirts refer thus to the combination of real experiences (the work clothes) and a mental construction (the representation of a new place forming part of the immigrants' integration process). can of course be linked to the feminist creations using embroidery and giving an aesthetic approach to a difficult reality. Using daily objects, Margarita focus on the the way these experiences form part of the permanent construction of the identity. The picture above shows another installation Margarita created with mops she kept when she was employed as a cleaning worker. Using embroidery, this installation also refers to dignity, identity and social integration.
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