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Celeste’s Immersive Textile Installations Embrace the Heat Intimacy of House

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When María Fernanda Camarena and Gabriel Rosas Alemán aren’t of their Mexico Metropolis studio, you would possibly discover them pulling weeds or chopping greens. “We love cooking and gardening—practices rooted in care, and ones we’d love to weave into our work someday,” they are saying. “There’s a quiet mindfulness in both that aligns perfectly with what we aim to express.”

This need to care roots a lot of the artists’ follow, which they current collectively beneath the title Celeste. Pondering of themselves as hosts, Celeste transforms galleries and museums with large-scale textile installations. In heat shades of pinks, oranges, and reds, the translucent cotton typically permits mild to filter via and solid tinted shadows across the area. Every work turns into a form of mise-en-scène as viewers are invited to lounge with mates, take pleasure in a meal, or carry out among the many textiles.

Set up view of “Melons Covered in Willow Leaves” on the artists’ studio. Photograph by Anna Pla Narbona

The earthy shade palette—initially impressed by pure dyeing supplies like avocado pit and turmeric root—started after the onset of COVID-19, when the artists needed to create “an atmosphere that felt like an embrace, a much-needed warmth after the isolation of 2020,” they are saying. “This concept of solace stayed with us, and today, the palette has come to symbolize safe spaces, with the womb as a recurring motif: a protected, intimate interior.”

Initiatives embody “Contra el miedo y la oscuridad, la fiesta colorida y feliz,” or “Against fear and darkness, the colorful and happy party,” made in collaboration with a 4th-grade class from Mexico Metropolis’s Granada neighborhood. After including their very own drawings to the cotton panels, the scholars used the vivid set up because the backdrop for a faculty pageant.

The monumental “Melons Covered in Willow Leaves” is much more immersive, as viewers have been invited to wander beneath a tent of draped cloth. And of their most up-to-date exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents in San Francisco, the artists have put in a trio of suspended works that bisect the gallery, with arched openings that permit guests to cross via. Referencing Diego Rivera’s “Agua, el origen de la vida” mural, the triad explores the connections between water and the impression of Mexico Metropolis’s colonial historical past on its panorama.

Later this month at The Bentway in Toronto, the pair may even current “Casting a Net, Casting a Spell,” a quilted cover of 100 particular person panels created as each a suncatcher and a needed repreieve from the summer season rays. It’s their largest mission thus far.

a winding tapestry in pink and green bisects a gallery
Set up view of Hacer brotar / To sprout at Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco. Photograph by Robert Divers Herrick

With every work, Celeste hopes to “invite the spectator not only in the sense of contemplation but rather in the involvement with the ceremonial… In this setting, the sensorial and emotional realms are recognized as legitimate sources of knowledge and an experience of hospitality and acknowledgment can take place without restrictions.”

Celeste’s Hacer brotar / To sprout is on view via June 14 in San Francisco. Discover rather more of the duo’s follow and course of on their web site and Instagram.

a detail image of stitched painted fabric
Element of “¡Qué llueva, qué llueva!” (2025), pigments and acrylic base on dyed cotton canvas, 66 x 109 inches
a winding tapestry in pink and green bisects a gallery. archways provide openings in the tapestry
Set up view of Hacer brotar / To sprout at Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco. Photograph by Robert Divers Herrick
children dance in front of a three panel installation in a large warehouse like space
“Contra el miedo y la oscuridad, la fiesta colorida y feliz” (2024), pigments and acrylic base on dyed cotton canvas, 4.5 x 7.5 meters, set up view at Escuela Primaria Maestra Antonio Caso, Mexico Metropolis. Photograph by Israel Esparza
a long pink and orange hanging tapestry
“Hacer olas” (2023), pigments and acrylic base on dyed cotton canvas, 2.7 x .25 x 12 meters, set up view at The Modern Austin, Austin, Texas. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein
two hands hold up a structure with orange and pink fabric
“Mellons Covered in Willow Leaves” 2024), scale mannequin of the mission within the artists’ studio 

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