Daily Weaves
Research developed during the residency at ERROR Project, Mexico City, October–November 2026.
What does it mean to make space? Can emptiness ever be truly empty?
During my residency in Mexico City, I began an open-ended investigation into emptiness, using observation, writing and weaving as ways of exploring the spaces between things. What started as a search for emptiness gradually unfolded into questions about memory, time, language, material origins and the traces that experiences leave behind.
I collected thoughts, questions and observations in a research notebook, paying attention to details that often go unnoticed: gaps in walls and pavements, spaces between objects, everyday gestures, repetitions and rhythms. I became interested in the invisible layers that shape our perception of the present — memories accumulated over time, knowledge passed through gestures, and histories that remain hidden behind the things we encounter.
Alongside this process, I continued working with weaving. Gradually, I began to understand it as more than a textile technique: a way of thinking, reading and writing. Like language, weaving operates within a structure. Threads follow certain rules, the loom sets its limits, yet there is always room for interpretation, decisions, mistakes and the unexpected. Each crossing, repetition and interruption carries information, while the gaps leave space for something that cannot be fully expressed.
Through this process, I explored textiles as a medium for making the unseen tangible. A way of giving form to thoughts, sensations, memories and the passage of time — things that are difficult to grasp but continue to shape our experience. Weaving also became a way of recording time through repetitive gestures, allowing different moments to coexist within a single material structure.
The research also led me to question the origins of materials and objects, and the stories concealed behind labels such as Hecho en México. Where do materials come from? What journeys, hands and transformations remain invisible in the final object? These questions opened another space for reflection on cultural memory, movement and the information that gets lost along the way.
Rather than seeking definitive answers, Daily Weaves remains an ongoing process of looking, collecting, questioning and making. It is an attempt to find a language through materials and gestures, to follow the threads between the tangible and intangible, and to create space for things that have not yet been named.
Perhaps the work is not about filling emptiness, but about discovering what it already holds.
Photographs by Celestino Marco Cavalli.
