Fueron tejidos. Teresa Lanceta

Fueron tejidos is an exhibition by Teresa Lanceta at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid that starts from textile practice to reconstruct the past, drawing on the garments of the stone Damas and on archaeological sites.

The exhibition Fueron tejidos, by Teresa Lanceta, occupies the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid with a proposal that uses textile practice to reconstruct the past. The artist, a doctor in Art History and winner of the 2023 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National Prize for the Visual Arts), starts from the study of the garments worn by the female stone sculptures known as the Damas, and from the relief of archaeological sites.

As no actual textile remains from the Iberian period exist, Lanceta has produced tapestries and folding studies that imitate the fall of ancient mantles. Her work links sewing with geological processes through notions such as cladding and the fold, so that fabric appears bound up with the history of the earth and its landscapes.

The exhibition is the fourth instalment of the Memoria, tejidos, museos cycle, curated by Selina Blasco and Patricia Molins, which fosters collaboration between contemporary women artists and national museum teams. Before reaching the Arqueológico, the cycle was shown at the Museo del Traje, the Museo del Romanticismo and the Museo de Artes Decorativas.