Teresa Lanceta: Fueron tejidos – An Exhibition Exploring Lost Iberian Textile Culture

This exhibition explores the absence of preserved textiles from the Iberian era, with artist Teresa Lanceta reconstructing a possible imaginary of what was lost. It examines textiles as a fundamental device for understanding daily life, economy, and symbolic thought in Iberian societies.

Teresa Lanceta's exhibition 'Fueron tejidos' (They were woven) is the fourth chapter of the project 'Memoria, tejidos, museos. Los barrios bajos de la atención' (Memory, textiles, museums. The low districts of attention). Hosted in the Iberian culture rooms of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, the exhibition addresses the paradox of the near-total absence of preserved textiles from this era. Lanceta develops an artistic and conceptual exercise that reconstructs a possible imaginary of what has disappeared, using folds, mantles, and coverings surviving in sculpture and archaeological remains as starting points. The exhibition positions textiles as a crucial device for understanding the daily life, economy, and symbolic thought of Iberian societies. Through tapestries, textile essays, and formal relationships with archaeological pieces, Lanceta explores how textiles, despite their absence, persist in the sculpted forms of Iberian Ladies or in the decorative motifs of ceramics. Terms like 'mantle,' 'fold,' or 'covering' transcend their textile meaning to describe geological and constructive processes, establishing a dialogue between vastly different temporal scales. Textiles emerge as a primary technology that articulates links between nature, culture, and language. The exhibition is structured into three sections: 'Materiales' (Materials) addresses textiles as a domestic and economic practice, linking fiber cultivation and animal husbandry, and highlighting the continuity of techniques and tools from antiquity to the present. 'Procesos' (Processes) focuses on weaving as one of humanity's most complex inventions, considering its structural and symbolic dimensions, and the presence of textile metaphors in language and landscape description. Finally, 'Formas. De las que nunca nos fuimos' (Forms. Of those we never left) features works by Lanceta developed from the folds of the 'Damas de Baza' and 'Cerro de los Santos', proposing an alternative reading of art history where abstraction and repetition are understood through ancestral textile practices. The exhibition is curated by Selina Blasco and Patricia Molins as part of a project spanning 2025-2026.

The page does not provide specific ticketing information for this exhibition. Visitors are directed to the museum's general website for further details. The project it belongs to runs between 2025 and 2026, indicating it is a current or upcoming exhibition. Further details on accessing the exhibition would likely be found via the official museum website.