Indira Allegra
Indira Allegra works with tension as creative material. The tension between intimacy and violence and tensions within the body all exist as materials stretched to their limits––like threads––pulled taught by the human hand. Using weaving as a methodology, she explores how these threads can be woven––through sculpture, installation and text/ile performance––creating interventions that respond to political and emotional space. Her most recent series of works uses looms as frames through which the weaver becomes the warp and is held under tension, performing a series of site-specific interventions using her body. Like the accumulation of memory in cloth, in BODYWARP, looms and other tools of the weaver’s craft become organs of memory, pulling the artist’s body into an intimate choreography between maker, tool and the narrative of a place.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Allegra received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in 2015; she
currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Her video installation,
Blackout
, was featured in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ 2016 exhibition “Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area.” She has received numerous artist grants and residencies from institutions such as the the Djerassi Residence Arts and the Headlands …
Indira Allegra works with tension as creative material. The tension between intimacy and violence and tensions within the body all exist as materials stretched to their limits––like threads––pulled taught by the human hand. Using weaving as a methodology, she explores how these threads can be woven––through sculpture, installation and text/ile performance––creating interventions that respond to political and emotional space. Her most recent series of works uses looms as frames through which the weaver becomes the warp and is held under tension, performing a series of site-specific interventions using her body. Like the accumulation of memory in cloth, in BODYWARP, looms and other tools of the weaver’s craft become organs of memory, pulling the artist’s body into an intimate choreography between maker, tool and the narrative of a place.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Allegra received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in 2015; she
currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Her video installation,
Blackout
, was featured in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ 2016 exhibition “Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area.” She has received numerous artist grants and residencies from institutions such as the the Djerassi Residence Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Allegra has produced commissioned-based work for SFMOMA and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others.
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