Frieze London, 2025: Claudia Alarcón & Silät
We are excited to be showing a solo presentation of Claudia Alarcón and Silät’s work at Frieze London this year.
Claudia Alarcón & Silät are a collective of Indigenous textile artists from the Wichí communities of the Gran Chaco, northern Argentina. They weave with the hand-spun fibres of the chaguar plant, a material and practice deeply rooted in Wichí culture. Their textiles, prominently featured in the Venice Biennale last year, forward an ancestral form of creativity and communication, while the collective practice fosters autonomy and economic self-sufficiency for women in the Gran Chaco, living in precarity against the dual threats of cultural erasure and climate crisis.
This will be the collective's first participation in the fair, and Cecilia Brunson Projects' first time participating in the main section of Frieze London.
The booth features work presented at the artists' recent museum exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion, as well as new works in which the artists revive the ‘antique stitch,’ an ancestral and ceremonial stitch that has become lost over the generations. The collective’s latest works are dedicated to relearning these laborious techniques so that they can be reabsorbed into the lexicon of the Wichí people over time.
