Lucía Ayerbe Rant
architect & textile artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice interweaves embroidery, hand-tufting and punch-needle to build surfaces that read as maps of territory, memory and the body. Trained as an architect, I think through structure, rhythm and scale: threads become lines, gradients behave like topographies, and joints hold fragments of place and time.
I revisit inherited motifs and domestic techniques from my Argentine and Slovenian background, translating them into contemporary surfaces. I work across scales from intimate pieces to wall-sized works seeking compositional clarity and tactile intensity.
Each piece is built layer by layer: stitching, knotting, cutting, adding and removing until the image settles. What remains is a map you can follow with your eyes and hands: a record of gestures, a field of color, and a path through which memory and material meet.
Lucía Ayerbe Rant (Buenos Aires) is a textile artist and architect. Her practice interweaves embroidery, hand-tufting, and punch-needle to build surfaces that read as maps—of territory, memory, and the body—where color, relief, and compositional rhythm organize possible paths. Trained at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), she approaches textiles with an architectural mindset—structure, scale, and material precision—translating inherited motifs and domestic techniques from her Argentine and Slovenian background into contemporary surfaces that oscillate between drawing and low relief.
From intimate pieces to large wall-works, her series—including Vuelos, Mapeando territorios, Crónicas de objetos, and Ruta, mar y vino—explore gradients, joints, and transitions as traces of time. She has exhibited in Argentina and Uruguay (solo show in Pueblo Garzón, 2024) and participated in BADA (2023). In 2025 she presents Living Links in Paris. She develops workshops and collaborations, including installation and design crossovers such as CONVERSE — All Star “Fuera del nicho” (Buenos Aires, 2024).
She is completing a Master’s thesis in Architectural History and Culture at UTDT, researching language, systems, and contemporary architectural culture. She lives and works in Buenos Aires and travels regularly between Argentina and Slovenia.
