Adriana Meunié
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The artist discovered tapestry techniques bound to the very primary essence of textiles, which she finds especially attractive given her lifelong immersion in them. It presents an incredible opportunity to create what she loves most: wild textures, volumes, and shapes—a fundamental pursuit in her work as she seeks a monstrous elegance.
She combines this technique with raw materials from her surroundings, finding in them a wealth of interesting symbols such as tradition, handcrafted and artisanal work, and links to ancient occupations like shepherding (with wool from the sheep she helps to shear) and cultivation, all of which she strives to valorize. She selects these materials for their intrinsic beauty, allowing them to express their raw, pure allure. Wool, esparto, carritx, and rafia (among others) in their primary forms are irresistibly attractive to her; although they are typically processed for use in baskets, sweaters, or chairs, she cherishes their natural state and wishes to share that sentiment.
Her themes include the challenge of introducing into a space elements that appear to originate from the outside—such as vegetal fibers reminiscent of grass or wool that clearly references the animal—while some pieces are designed to recreate the sensation of a landscape. Driven by a pursuit of clean rawness, she meticulously balances natural materials to present them with clarity and precision, and although conventional emotions like sadness, joy, or anger hold little appeal for her, she embraces the challenge of creating works that evoke sensations of calm, alertness, and even discomfort.
Adriana Meunié is a textile artist, she grew up in Mallorca, where she currently works and lives. Her studio is based in Felanitx. She specialized in tapestry techniques, where she often plays with the textures, volumes and shapes. She works with raw, organic materials such as wool and raffia to create weavings
and garments loaded with richly sensorial, tactile properties, asking us to consider their roots as organic products fresh from the field.
She does so by tampering as little as possible with the materials, allowing their innately wild, textural qualities to dictate the nature of what she makes; dried grasses fan outwards from her wall hangings, swishing this way and that, while wool left in uneven, shaggy clumps becomes rugged clothing or three- dimensional tapestries.