Despite their formal veneer, Guerrero-Maciá’s hybrid assemblages reveal the architecture of their own making, employing an expressive materiality aligned with post-Minimalism’s penchant for process and subjectivity. The artist inflects her surfaces with traces of the body through her chosen media, which include, in addition to used fabrics and secondhand clothing, the occasional button and grommet and—in the case of NOMAD no. 1, 2023, and NOMAD no. 2, 2024—small pieces of driftwood and feathers. As signifiers of human corporeality and use, textiles operate as a scaffolding for the warp and weft of contemporary issues around exploited labor, off-site manufacturing, and global commerce. For the artist, such vestments are also potent containers of a former life, embodying the plight of the exile.
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