The jury recognizes her “for an artistic practice sustained over time that rescues a feminine, vernacular and collective language”
Teresa Lanceta has been awarded this Monday with the 2023 National Prize for Plastic Arts, which is awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and is endowed with 30,000 euros.
The jury has recognized Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, 1951) “for an artistic practice sustained over time that rescues a feminine, vernacular and collective language”.
As he has highlighted, rewarding Lanceta is recognizing a “generation of women, to the technique of weaving as a language, a primitive code of humanity far from the patriarchal” which means coming into contact with the cultures of various groups such as “the Roma population, the Moroccan nomadic weavers or the residents of the Raval”.
It also recognizes the fact that the artist sets her sights on “traditions and ways of life with which she has maintained a dialogue through her tapestries, paintings, drawings, and her theorizing.”
Teresa Lanceta has a degree in History from the University of Barcelona and a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid.
His artistic work has focused since the seventies on the use of textiles as a form of expression, blurring the line between crafts and art. Added to his interest in formal exploration are material and technical issues, as well as the traditions and ways of life associated with the act of weaving.
Among the topics of his artistic research the work of popular art is found textiles in Morocco, the 15th century Spanish carpet and the work of women in the tobacco industry.
His works have participated in exhibitions organized by national and international institutions such as MACBA, IVAM, MUSAC, the Spanish Academy in Rome, the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Cairo Biennale, or the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. .