Rastros del Agua (Traces of Water)

Drawing has traditionally been understood as a preparatory medium subordinate to other disciplines. However, in contemporary practices this hierarchy is often questioned, giving rise to an expanded conception of drawing as an autonomous field of research. Traces of Water is conceived from this perspective, through a performative approach to drawing in which trace expands into action, time, and the body, overflowing the conventional limits of the graphic medium. In addition, collaboration is established as a structural principle of the project. Relationships between bodies are explored, as well as between bodies and natural or climatic phenomena, giving water an active role as an agent of transformation, record, and tracing.

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From this methodological framework, two themes relevant to contemporary art are addressed: female identity and local cultural identity. Both are intertwined through a dialogue with a figure that embodies and symbolizes a tradition significant to Canarian female cultural identity: the laundress. The interest in recovering and re-signifying traditional practices associated with the feminine is part of a broader movement of critical revision of hegemonic narratives. In this project, this revision is carried out from a poetic and processual approach, avoiding any form of nostalgia or idealization.

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The exhibition space plays an important role in this project. Its symbolic legacy is activated, ceasing to be a mere container for the works and revealing itself as a surface of historical resonance: a space where, for decades, women's bodies bore the weight of daily work, care, and oral transmission, inscribing on its walls a memory made up of repeated gestures, water, and shared effort. That persistent, daily, and collective action seems to reappear here transformed into a graphic trace, as if the drawing still heard the echo of those movements. In this way, a narrative is constructed where gesture, memory, and territory are inscribed as persistent traces of water.

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Sala de Arte Los Lavaderos, 2026.