Pamela Suasti ｜ Meet The Artist

Pamela Suasti

(Quito, 1991)

Ecuadorian artist dedicated to the production, experimentation and investigation of textile techniques. Through learning the technique and its complexities, her works conceive new ways of transiting, inhabiting, understanding and transforming matter. Pamela explores the possibilities in all its fields, from the original fabric, the textile as an object, and simple shapes mixing them with the ability to connect with personal processes.

Visual Artist by the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (2014)
Graduate of the Specialization of Contemporary Textile Artistic Practices by the National University of Arts of Buenos Aires (2021-2022)

“I choose to weave by your constant ability to amaze me. The encounter with soft matter calls me to a daily learning, to repetition and the insistence to master it, the fibers have become a language of introspection, creation and transformation of the present and reality. The hands are the vital tool of this process, through them the chaos is channeled, is in contact with matter that open new paths to travel. I believe in tissue as a great innate ability that has been given to us for the transformation.”

Studio

Story of Pamela Suasti

Dedicated to the production, experimentation and research of textile techniques, as well as the understanding of the fabric as an innate manifestation of nature and a symbol of spirituality. Its practice is a statement of research-making; hands are the tool para excellence to understand, create and know the world is why its relationship with textiles is sustained from the doing. Doing as a mode of resistance, study, transmission and transmutation of the material sensitive.

In doing lies a very powerful act: the will of movement, the discipline of returning and the awareness of existing.

In 2022, she won the Acquisition Award at the 5th edition of Premio Brasil at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Quito.

Her work has been exhibited in Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Portugal and Spain.

Individual Exhibitions

2022 – Elemental: Formas de una forma. Galería N24, Quito – Ecuador.
2018 – Intento (uno). People Lab, Quito-Ecuador

Collective Exhibitions

2023 Révélations VI Biennale Internationale Métiers d’Art et Création, Grand Palais Ephemere. Paris, France.
2023 Window towards a moment, Qgaleria. Quito, Ecuador.
2023 Hybrid Art Fair, Petit Palace. Madrid, Spain.
2022 X International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, 25 years old Word Textile Art. Miami, United States
2022 Contextile – 6th Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art. Guimaraes, Portugal
2022 V edition Premio Brasil. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Quito, Ecuador
2022 Hilo Conductor II. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Doral (DORCAM), Miami, United States
2022 Our garden. Cocoa Museum. Guayaqui, Ecuador.
2022 Synchrony. ArtLab Bridge. Quito, Ecuador.
2021 A garden of ours. Museum of metals. Cuenca, Ecuador.
2021 Cuerpos – cuerdas. Fourth meeting of Arte Mujeres Ecuador, Alianza Francesa. Quito, Ecuador.
2021 The daily life and its poetic practices. Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. CDMX, Mexico.
2020 XVI Salon de Arte textil. Museo José Hernández MAP. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2019 Sacha Ukupacha. Arte Actual Flacso. Quito, Ecuador.
2019 Geographies of the singular. Funka Fest. Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2019 You will not speak for us. Wampra Arte-Bar. Quito, Ecuador
2018 THE FIRST- 2nd edition. Espacio Cultura Plaza de la Fuente. Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2018 Emergency exit: II exhibition of emerging art 2018. Burrow Café Art Shop. Loja, Ecuador
2018 DUETO – Disorder: Exhibition of Pamela Suasti and Cristian Tapia. No lugar gallery. Quito, Ecuador.
2016 – Regards Croisés: Exhibition by Isabel Llaguno and Pamela Suasti. Alianza Francesa. Quito, Ecuador.
2015 – ROUTES: Tours of graduates of the Career of Arts. Arte Actual – Flasco. Quito, Ecuador.

Residencies

2022 Textile Map – San Juan, Argentina
2020 Pujinostro – Pujil, Ecuador
2019 Sachaukupacha – Selva Cuyabeno, Ecuador

Distinctions

2022 Acquisition Award – Fifth Edition Brazil Award Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito
2021 First Honorable Mention – VII Bienal de Escultura San Antonio de Ibarra