Sarah Rosalena

In an iteration of the exhibition, Sangre de Nopal, shown earlier this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara (MCASB), three artists of Mexican heritage explore the inextricable relationships between land, labour and body woven together over the centuries in textile production and exploited by colonial powers, in this case by the Spanish conquest of Mexico, illustrated in the story of cochineal.

Sarah Rosalena works between traditional craft traditions and emerging technology, breaking boundaries through her hybrid forms rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, re-interpreted through digital tools and her hand. Born from multi-generations of indigenous (Wixárika) women weavers, Sarah works from her digital Jacquard loom and her mother’s bead loom, mixing hand-dyed natural colours, including cochineal and indigo, with a pixelated palette to produce her textiles.

Part of Learning from the Land at The Whitaker.