ANDREA MONROY PALACIOS
& MARÍA SOSA
ARTBO 2025
Textile as an archive, history as material
This project brings together the practices of María Sosa Ruíz (Mexico) and Andrea Monroy Palacios (Guatemala), two artists who, from different contexts, interweave memory, history, and materiality to question the ways in which our cultural and political realities have been configured.
Andrea Monroy Palacios works from the Guatemalan textile tradition, exploring weaving and embroidery as forms of manual writing and as a living archive of individual and collective identities. Her pieces turn textiles into a medium of thought, where techniques and materials are inseparable from the message.
María Sosa, in turn, investigates the processes of conquest and the contact between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, understanding history as a sculptural material that can be shaped to intervene in the present. Drawing on methodologies that cross anthropology, archaeology, and artistic practice, her work activates memories and confronts the colonial traces that continue to shape the contemporary world.
Together, their works open a space of resonance where historical observation and textile tradition dialogue as forms of resistance and critical reinterpretation of the past. The gesture of weaving and the act of excavation meet here as practices of recovery and reconfiguration, generating a project that understands memory not as a fixed remnant, but as a living territory in constant transformation.
ADÁN VALLECILLO, ANDREA MONROY PALACIOS & JAMIE DENBURG HABIE
LISTE BASEL 2025
For Liste 2025, Galería Extra presents the work of three artists whose practices are driven by the use of natural pigments and their potential as fluctuating layers of the body. Through materials such as cocoa, cochineal, and indigo, these works evoke poetic, sensorial, and political experiences that reflect on the relationship between human beings and their environment. Pigments, understood as a second skin, function as thresholds enabling dialogues between nature, the body, and socioeconomic structures.
UPCOMING AND PAST FAIRS
PAST FAIRS
