UDIT Fashion Design students exhibit, for the second consecutive year, at the Royal Tapestry Factory
Under the title Materia (Matter), the exhibition brings together 16 tapestries made by 76 students.
A total of 76 first-year students of the Degree in Fashion Design at UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, are exhibiting their work at the Real Fábrica de Tapices in Madrid, from Thursday 9 October until Wednesday 29 October.
The Materia exhibition brings together the 16 tapestries made by the students as part of Fashion Revolution Week, an annual campaign that brings together the world's largest fashion activism movement.
The pieces were made using wool donated by the WoolDreamers company and are the result of thinking about contemporary uses in order to preserve all the heritage, both material and immaterial, surrounding merino wool.
Precisely, in order to get to know the raw material, its origin and, in short, the process involved in the wool cycle, the students were also able to visit the facilities of Wooldreamers, a Spanish wool company that strives to vindicate, care for the legacy, highlight the value of this material and reflect on the place it has occupied culturally in Spain.
Materia is part of UDIT's Sustentare educational project, which advocates capturing, in a collection of textile art pieces, the dynamic and integrating essence of our actions and thoughts through our hands.
In this sense, Maruca García, director of the Fashion Department at UDIT, points out that the University is "very committed to training professionals who are aware of the importance of placing concepts such as sustainability and circular economy at the centre of the equation".
For her part, Raquel Martín Ayuso, head of Exhibitions and Museum of the Royal Tapestry Factory, declared that the Royal Tapestry Factory "reaffirms its role as a benchmark in the dissemination and preservation of Spanish textile heritage, opening its doors to projects that connect artisan memory with the creativity of the future. At the same time it maintains a firm commitment to sustainability and the circular economy, integrating these values in its work processes and in the management of its textile heritage".
The exhibition can be visited at the Real Fábrica de Tapices (C/ Fuenterrabía, 2 - Madrid), from Thursday 9 October until Wednesday 29 October, in two daily shows: at 11:30 am or 1:30 pm.
The students who have participated in the design of the tapestries are: Alanis Arko, Irene Cabestrero, Andrea Jara, Irina Pazos, Fernanda Suárez, Beatriz Beigveder, Matías López, Saray del Rocío Osorio, Arianna Ottati, María Payan, Marina Soto, Carlota García, Aida Abood, Gabriela Villegas, Nathalie Valenzuela, Andrea Alpizar, Arantxa González, Álvaro Ara, Adulay Balde, Claudia Castro, Athina Dávila, Valeria Pérez, Alicia Suárez, Celia Correal, Ainoah Lucas, Alexei Méndez, Laura Rodríguez-Roselló, Nicole Hernández, Antonella Cereceda, Marta Carballar, Manuel Castro, Noelia Blanco, María García, Samuel Roldán, Antonio Lledó, Diana Sánchez, Alona Lipska, Ana López de la Cámara, Ysmalay Ríos, Clara Vara, Evelyn Baggaley, Nelia Conde, Gianinna Draghici, Carlota Eguilior, Carla Martín, Patricia Pescador, Alicia Paez, Andrea Bustamante, Inés Saz, Teresa Campos, Valentina Cherici, Ángela Rodríguez, Mariana Cardós, Jana Álvarez, Victoria López, Carla Martín, Elena Prieto, Eva Ortiz, Evan Herrera, María Soledad Bello, M. Fernanda Méndez, Valeria Pinzón, Grethel Rendón, Juanita Valdiri, Alba Callejo, Carolina Martín, María Roldán, Mariana Muñiz, Ariadna Gimeno, Andrea Valentina Abreo, Michelle Hoffmann, Paola Gómez, Nicole Bid, Jorge Cano, Isabela Araujo and Michelle Sánchez.