NEw artist
ines devoto
My name is Inés Devoto, I live in Buenos Aires. I'm a psychologist (UBA) and textile artist. In 2015, I began embroidering, initially solely by hand, with a canvas and frame, while I was recovering from an illness. With each stitch, I felt like I was mending broken parts of myself, mending wounds in a state of meditation. Investigating textiles further, I discovered the technique of free motion or "free embroidery," which allows me to draw with a sewing machine. Currently, I combine both techniques, hand and machine.
I also use collage, embroidery on paper, and embroidery on water-soluble materials, among other things. Textiles connect me to the fabric, to the web, to my grandmother and my mother. It is passed on to my daughter, who also embroiders, and, with her threads, they lead me into a large sororal network.
My Mission
I am challenged by issues related to women and their place in the patriarchal system; my work attempts to denounce something of that order. Unity, the synergy of encounter, the struggle to win rights. I am currently researching and working on femicides.
Above: Puntadas Ausentes, 2025
Missing Stitches alludes to the women who were murdered due to gender violence. It attempts to represent the void created, contrasting it with the vitality of other women. The fragility, resilience, and absence these losses leave in society. Stitches serve as a vehicle for denunciation and memory, as an act of symbolic reparation and a way of raising awareness of the problem.
Canvas, threads, scrap fabric
Machine embroidery (free motion), hand embroidery
48 x 48 cm
( First Prize VII Salon de la Mujer 2025 )
private collection
On the right: El Grito, 2024 ( detail )
Textile collage with free motion
( first prize VI Salon de la Mujer 2024 )
available
