Costuras Territoriales brings together contemporary women artists whose works move across disciplines and geographies, sharing an anchor in textile as a site of knowledge, care, and critical reflection. Engaging fiber as both material and method, the exhibition considers how stitching, dyeing, and construction connect the body to place, and to cultural and labor histories. Textile emerges here not as a fixed tradition, but as a living language through which histories are told, held, and reimagined.

Across the border region, fibers carry layered social and economic histories. Cotton cultivation in the Juárez Valley shaped the region’s agricultural identity before industrialization and maquiladora economies reoriented labor toward gendered systems of industrial labor. Alongside this history are longer relationships to plant knowledge and material transformation, from yucca and lechuguilla fibers to cochineal and other organic dyes. These entanglements of land, production, and labor form part of the terrain the exhibition reflects upon.

From fibers marked by personal and collective memory to materials drawn from sites of trauma, including body fluids, regional plants, and rusted fragments of the border wall, the works trace how textile can become a gesture of resistance, mourning, storytelling, and care. In this way, the exhibition reflects the border region itself, where rupture and renewal, endurance and imagination, exist in layered simultaneity. Together, these artists expand what textile can hold, moving between the intimate and the infrastructural, between resilience and transformation.