Masaha cycle-7 | Misk Art Institute | Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Year - April to July 2024
This work is a durational response to the constant influx of streamed media, delivered daily to our phones. In a post-Internet era where our attention is relentlessly consumed by screens, how do we process difficult, disrupted, or harsh images?
This project seeks to counteract this trend through community interventions and slow durational practice. Urrutia has utilised discarded analogue tapes and the rhythmic practice of knitting to create public interventions. By sitting in public spaces and knitting, Urritia invites collective participation to foster a sense of community and practice an act of resistance. This living, evolving artwork is a practice of grieving, a response to the dystopian imagery social media streams daily. The work attempts to transform loss into shared healing by encouraging moments of genuine human connection in our increasingly digital world.
Silk-screening on paper 300GSM | Size 112x 76 cm. Ghosting effect | Photography by artist
Romantic Memory Medium - Cassette Tape knitthing Size - 250 x 157cm
Installation: Cassette Tape knitthing
Contact-sheet - Silkscreening on 300 gr. Somerset Satin White Paper with ghosting effect
Title: Street Intervention
Year: 2024
Medium: Street Intervention at Souk Al Zal and The New Haraj, Riyadh
As people encounter the artist, they receive an adapted version of Piedad
Bonnett's poem El Hilo de los Días (The Thread of the Days) merges her verses with the artist's voice:
I knit the threads of life.
I knit sorrow and joy.
I knit mourning.
I knit the days of peace and harmony.
I knit the tears of the heart.
I knit dreams and hopes.
I knit the paths traveled.
I knit the voices that migrate.
I knit the voices that arrived and those that left.
I knit diversity and colors.
I knit the essence of our everyday lives.
Street intervention at Souk Al Zal and The New Harash Market | Photography by Abdelhamid Belahmidi
Street intervention at Souk Al Zal and The New Harash Market | Photography by Abdelhamid Belahmidi
Title - Romantic Memory
Year - 2024
Dimensions - 18" X 40"
Medium - Hand-knitting with Cassette Tapes
