The Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that Teresa Lanceta will be the recipient of this year's National Visual Arts Award, with a prize of 30,000 euros.
The jury selected her based on her advocacy for creative traditions associated with women. According to the Ministry, she was chosen "for a sustained artistic practice over time that reclaims a feminine, vernacular, and collective language" and with the aim to "recognize a generation of women and the technique of weaving as a primordial language, a code of humanity removed from patriarchy through which she has connected with the cultures of various groups, such as the Roma population, nomadic Moroccan weavers, or the neighbors of El Raval."
It is also highlighted that "Lanceta revisits the modern idea of authorship by directing her practice towards collaborative formats; artistic traditions and ways of life with which she has engaged through her tapestries, paintings, drawings, and theorization."
Born in 1951 in Barcelona, this artist holds a degree in History from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has been a teacher at the School of Architecture of Alicante and the Escola Massana in Barcelona, and since the 1970s, her production has been based on the use of textiles as a form of expression, intentionally blurring the line between craftsmanship and art. She is equally interested in formal exploration and the material and technical aspects linked to textiles, as well as the traditions and ways of life related to the act of weaving.
Her tapestries, paintings, drawings, and artistic theories establish connections with the culture of different populations that have a direct relationship with textile tradition, such as the Roma population or nomadic weavers in Morocco. She has also researched the Spanish carpet of the 15th century and the work of women in the tobacco industry. Her works have been exhibited in exhibitions organized by national and international institutions such as MACBA, IVAM, MUSAC, the Academy of Spain in Rome, the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Cairo Biennial, or the Reina Sofia National Art Centre Museum.
Image : Teresa Lanceta in el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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