Bringing the World into the World
In a context of growing techno-authoritarianism, Bringing the World into the World offers a reflection on life, human relationships, and our responsibility towards others.
The series takes its name from a formulation by Diotima, a community of Italian women philosophers associated with the affirmation of a feminine symbolic order and the possibility of participating in shaping the world through different experiences, languages, and relationships.
This exploration begins with an ethical conviction: no idea can be worth more than a life. In the I–You relationship, the You is not an object of the I, but an irreducible, unique presence that cannot be subordinated to my desires or representations. It is through the encounter with this other that the I also comes into being.
Red, breasts, wombs, viscera, and umbilical cords form a repertoire of images exploring origins, vulnerability, and interdependence. The maternal breast emerges as a metaphor for a bond that precedes language, a relational space in which the existence of one is bound to that of another.
The works take on different material forms and engage with the same question: how do we relate to others, and what kind of world do we make possible through those relationships?
48 x 34 cm
Crochet, Peruvian yarn, cotton yarn
“Invitation to Dialogue”
Textile piece, found objects
60 × 100 cm
“The Intensity of Dialogue”
50 × 50 cm
Wet felting, yarn, canvas, gouache
Поговорили по душам / A Heart-to-Heart Conversation
45 × 25 cm
Textile piece on a canvas-covered stretcher frame
“Rozhánitsa” — Symbols of Life and Fertility
65 × 165 cm
Textile piece, cotton yarn
“After the Encounter”
25 × 25 cm
Textile piece on a stretcher frame
“The Birth of Dialogue”
25 × 25 cm
Textile piece on a stretcher frame
Selected for the 12th International Mini Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Scythia”, June 2025
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
100 × 100 cm
Crochet, yarn wrapping, Peruvian yarn, cotton yarn
Levinas Formula
74 × 78 cm
Textile piece, cotton yarn
“I + You = The World” condenses an essential idea: the existence of the I is built through relationship; it is the Other who gives me the possibility of becoming an I.
Inspired by the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, this piece affirms that the origin of the human lies in relationship — a bond mediated by responsibility and by the gaze turned towards the other.
60 × 110 cm
Textile piece, cotton yarn
70 × 70 cm
Textile piece, cotton yarn
“Sounding Women”
Ceramic sculptural rattles, finished with oil paint and encaustic
The ensemble constitutes a unique work.
“Sounding Woman”
A rattle sculpture depicting a female torso, with sound held within it as a potential.
The hands, barely touching, form a circular gesture.
The head, slightly tilted, suggests attentiveness and reflection.
Sound emerges only when the piece is activated; at rest, it remains latent.
One-of-a-kind piece, hand-modelled.
Ceramic finished with graphic ink and oil paint.
10 cm high | 20 cm circumference | 147 g
“Bringing the World into the World” was performed by Mariana Chandelier, a blind sound and performance artist, in April 2025 at Espacio Parva. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViqcHtpV43A
Performance
Performance. “Bringing the World into the World”, November 2023. Parque Lezama, Buenos Aires, Argentina.