Inka Gressel is the co-director of the ifa-Galerie in Berlin. From Documenta 12 she studies global narratives in textiles. She has curated (with Suanne Weiß) the traveling exhibition “The event of a thread” of the Institute for International Cultural Relations of Germany (ifa). Through the history of textiles and its use, she observes the history of humanity and proposes in her projects connections between local traditions and contemporary artistic work, creating intercultural platforms to generate new dialogues. In 2016 she learned about the works in chaguar fiber by the German artist Olaf Holzapfel, made in collaboration with a family of weavers from the Wichí people of Misión Chaqueña (Salta); From that contact she grew interested in getting to know that border region of northern Argentina, which motivated her to remind her of her journeys between European and Andean landscapes, where people remain deeply linked to the land. Textile materials tell about this close relationship with nature. From there you can also measure distances and demand a common world.

Andrea Fernández lived for six years between Tartagal and Santa Victoria Este (northeast of the province of Salta) accompanying collective processes of community organization and management, especially with indigenous women. She is a visual artist and curator. She articulates ethnographic and artistic research with social economy and communication projects. She has worked on multiple cultural management projects with artists from northwest Argentina. After accompanying the formation of the women’s collective Thañí/Viene del monte (from Santa Victoria Este, Salta) since 2017, as a territorial technician of INTA, in 2019 she began the project “Listening and the winds” developed together with Inka Gressel, in which she called on artisans and communicators from indigenous peoples to work alongside artists and researchers to explore new ways of making or presenting their work in the territory of art, uniting different stories and inscriptions of resistance and memory.