Cheong See Min and Silät: Threads of Nature
Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to announce the first of two concurrent exhibitions as part of London Gallery Weekend 2026.
In parallel to José Jun Martínez’s solo exhibition, the gallery’s focused viewing room presentation, Threads of Nature, brings together a collection of textile works from contemporary fibre artist Cheong See Min and Silät, a collective of women weavers working in the Wichí territory. United in their shared engagement with natural fibres, both practices use their materials as vehicles to explore ancestral knowledge, community, and transmission.
See Min’s textile practice similarly centres an idea of natural materiality, using pineapple leaf fibre to create her intricately woven works. Approaching weaving as a communicative act, See Min uses her craft as a means to explore the relationship between human and tropical ecologies. The materiality of her work speaks to a conversation between self-identity and industry, whereby, as a descendant of a pineapple farming family, her practice stands as a direct response to her own personal heritage. For See Min, the pineapple fibre is a site of cultural translation, bridging the tropical soil of her home into a collective historical imagination, transforming what was once an agricultural byproduct into a tactile vessel for cultural and colonial narratives. Threads of Nature at Cecilia Brunson Projects marks See Min’s first show in the United Kingdom.
Brought into dialogue with See Min, the works on show by Silät were developed during the collective’s recent residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (PAC) and will be presented in the context of their current institutional exhibition, Living Weaving, at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Formed in 2023 by Claudia Alarcón, the collective comprises over one hundred Wichí women weavers from Northern Argentina. Working with chaguar fibre, native to the region, their practice is rooted in ancestral history and tradition whilst also remaining open to continuous evolution. Expanding from the traditional yica bag and its geometric references to local flora and fauna, the group, under Alarcón’s leadership, has developed collaborative techniques that enable multiple hands to produce a single textile, foregrounding a notion of collective authorship.
Together, the two presentations open a dialogue between painting and textile, tracing distinct, yet resonant, approaches to landscape and ecology across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
See Min holds an MA from Tainan National University of Art in Taiwan (2020). She was shortlisted for Bakat Muda Sezaman Young Contemporaries (2019) and the International Biennale Exhibition of Micro Textile Art Scythia, Ukraine (2021). Her works have been shown in solo exhibition, After the Pineapple, at Warin Lab (2025, Thailand); Ames Yavuz Gallery at Art SG (2025, Singapore); Between the Lines at Appetite (2024, Singapore); A Seed, a Shift and a Lost Pineapple at Institutum (2023, Singapore); Communities in the Making at esea contemporary (2023, Manchester, UK); The Labyrinths of Touch at Balai Seni Maybank (2023, Kuala Lumpur); and Filled in Absence at Yancheng Black & White Gallery (2021, Taiwan). Recent residencies include Islands Art Residency (Taichung, Taiwan, 2021), Rimbun Dahan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022), and Gasworks (London, UK, 2023).
Silät’s work was featured in the 60th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere in 2024 and the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre in 2025. In December 2022, Alarcón became the first indigenous woman to be awarded a National Salon of Visual Arts prize by the Ministry of Culture in Argentina. Claudia Alarcón & Silät’s work is represented in public collections including Guggenheim New York, LACMA, Los Angeles, Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), MALBA Collection in Buenos Aires, the Denver Art Museum, Colorado, and the Gund Collection.