Leyla Cárdenas en la Quinta Trienal de Arte Textil de Hangzhou, China
The Fifth Hangzhou Triennial of Textile Art (China) opened on September 23 under the title “Re-Constellations,” bringing together 45 artists from 17 countries. Curated by Jiang Jun, Huang Yan, Asadur Makhlov, and Xu Jia, the exhibition proposes reimagining the starry sky as a metaphor for a new cultural map, foregrounding the role of the Global South in contemporary art.
Among the invited artists is Leyla Cárdenas. Her work is an installation that combines sublimated photographs on polyester silk, later partially unraveled, to create an immersive landscape arranged within the exhibition space.
The piece establishes a dialogue between space and materials transformed by human action. Through textiles as both medium and conceptual framework, Cárdenas explores layers of time and memory, turning the landscape into a testimony of the cycles of destruction left by industrialization and the overexploitation of natural resources.
On view through November 2025 at the Zhejiang Art Museum, the exhibition highlights the strength of textile art as a critical and poetic language capable of weaving new constellations of meaning.
