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ANA MARIA ZAMORA
El uso del tiempo encuentra su propio camino.
Ana María Zamora Moreno (She, they). Embroidery artist and educator. Based in Colombia. She studied biology and holds doctoral degree in Anthropology of education (Universidad de Los Andes). She did research with monkeys in la Macarena tropical forest and with indigenous communities about fish consumption and agriculture in the Amazon. She has been working in rural education in Colombia. She learned to embroider in México. Her interest is the use of “costureros” as a methodology to embroider with communities and talk about biodiversity. As an embroidery artist she transits a process that begins with collaborative embroidery workshops that takes out memories and continues with individual embroideries.
Embroidery is an act, a political act in favor of slow life. Embodies awareness of materialities and time, of memories and thoughts. When is done collectively generates cooperative learning.
Collaborative embroidery are invitations to transgress gender and age preestablished roles. Workshops allow participants to create their own art work, as an interwoven action between individual and collective learning. Are framed spaces to embroider and talk about nature.
Collaborative workshops are an interdisciplinary act where threads, fabrics, drawings and drums are artifacts that connect people.
There is room for collective silence or “sensory embodiment against words egemony” (Goopy & Rassan, 2019).
Topic is nature, a peaceful topic that generates bridges among participants that have different political positions.
Peaceful interaction spaces.
Knowledge is produced horizontally; no body holds the power. Everybody can learn, everybody can teach in action.
When I do individual embroideries after workshops, memories are unraveled, I connect scenes of my life before the workshop, what happened in the workshop, and what I want to say at the moment. In this way I make public field notes, emotions, and conversations. Reconfiguration of collective and individual memories are embodied in a new embroidery.
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