Grafismos desterrados. Lucrecia Lionti

In Grafismos desterrados, Lucrecia Lionti presents a new body of textile works, most of them produced between 2025 and 2026 specifically for the exhibition, continuing a series initiated in 2024 titled “Grafismos de lana”.

Working through different groups of works, Lionti alternates between pieces built from specific phrases and concepts, often linked to political and social realities, and others that lean toward a more formal and abstract language, consistently grounded in textile materiality. Here, line, symbol and gesture emerge through weaving, allowing meaning to remain open, sensed rather than fixed.

The exhibition is shaped by her time in Barcelona, and by the work of two Argentine figures who lived here in exile at different moments: the poet Juana Bignozzi and the writer and theorist Oscar Masotta. It also stems from a shift in her own practice, from writing with words toward a form of expression marked by displacement, where language falters and is reconfigured. In this context, weaving becomes a way of continuing to write when words no longer arrive as expected.