DEBORAH JAFIF
STATEMENT 2025
Since my childhood, thread has been my way of connecting with the world. I learned to embroider with my grandmother, and ever since, it has become my means of expression. With it, I join thoughts, weave ideas, and transform everyday materials into visual narratives.
The thread, almost invisible, leaves a trace, unites, tears, and writes my story. It predates writing; it weaves the world as words construct language. Each stitch adds time, each thread gives body to the work.
I never stop thinking, imagining, and spinning. The thread and I are connected, creating a language of our own where memory, the present, and the future intertwine in each weave.
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About the work
Neuronal Cartographies visually translates the cerebral network through threads, fibers, and textures, evoking the synaptic connections that enable the transmission of information within our brain.
Through textile techniques—embroidery, weaving, and assemblage—a visual metaphor of these mental maps is constructed, where each stitch represents a connection, an idea, or a memory.
The textile medium, by virtue of its flexible and organic nature, becomes a mirror of thought: something that can be structured, unraveled, and rewoven. The work raises an essential question: Can we train the mind to redraw its own maps? To think differently?
Neuronal Cartographies Series / Textile artwork
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DEBORAH JAFIF
Studied Architecture at the University of Belgrano (1979–80). Trained with Raúl Marengo, Enio Iommi, Nora Correas, among others. Participated in studio critiques with Andrés Waissman (2019) and Manuel Ameztoy (2025). In teaching, she conducted a workshop at the XI Festival de Arte, Porto Alegre (1997). She received the First Prize at the Benito Quinquela Martín Salon (1992) and an Honorable Mention at the VII National Salon of Textile Art (1998).
She has held solo exhibitions at C.C. Borges, the Buenos Aires Legislature, CAJA Jujuy, Quimera, Pasaje 865, and Villa Carmen. Her work has been included in group shows at ART on PAPER NY (2024), Este Arte (Uruguay), Art Lima (Peru), C.C. Borges, C.C. Recoleta, Palais de Grace, M.A.M. Maldonado, MBA de la Boca, Fundación Banco Patricios, among others.