Troca (Swap) was born from a collective construction, woven from conversations and togetherness within a group of embroiderers. The work proposes the reinterpretation of visual references through photographs of textures, embroidery, and words.

The textures were chosen for their organic nature and because, in my view, they are neutral vessels of memory that enable reconstructions. The images were structured following a pattern suggested by the textures themselves, gaining new possibilities for interpretation. However, I realized I had only fragments of possibility 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.

Immersing myself in the group, both as an apprentice and as an observer, allowed me to assign new meanings to the reconstructed images, which manifest themselves in the embroidery and in the words present in the photographs. The words are only possibilities for interpretation, since the images are abstract and allow the viewer to build their own associations.

By interweaving the fully reinterpreted photograph with embroidery, the work aligns paths and proposes new stitches, inviting the viewer to look at the reverse side, unravel everything, and imagine other finishes for the images and words.

Troca (Swap) is composed of 11 black-and-white photographs, printed on Japanese paper and hand-embroidered, conceived to be presented front and back, except for one.

Each piece measures 25 cm x 25 cm, with margins of 3 cm and 9 cm, except for one photograph, which has margins of 3 cm and 6 cm.