Swap emerges from a collective process, woven through conversations and shared experiences within a group of women embroiderers. The work seeks to reinterpret visual references through the interplay of texture photography, embroidery, and words.

Textures were chosen for their organic nature and, in my view, for being neutral vessels of memory—capable of hosting reconstructions. The images were structured following patterns suggested by the textures themselves, opening up new possibilities for interpretation. Yet I realized I was working only with fragments, and felt the need to incorporate embroidery.

I didn’t know how to embroider, so I had to learn. I joined a group of women who embroidered together, side by side, exchanging experiences, knowledge, and stories as we worked.

This immersion, both as a learner and observer, allowed me to assign new meanings to the reconstructed images—meanings that manifest through the stitches and the words present in the photographs. The words offer only interpretive possibilities, as the images are abstract and invite the viewer to form their own associations.

By intertwining reimagined photography with embroidery, the work threads new paths and proposes fresh points of connection, inviting the viewer to look at the reverse side, to unravel, and to imagine new finishes for both image and word.

The Swap series consists of 11 black-and-white photographs, designed—except for one—to be presented front and back.