Bio
Angeles Jacobi (Buenos Aires, 1989) works with durational textile installations in which motorized mechanisms unravel the weave during the exhibition. The thread accumulates on spools that remain as a memory archive of what once was. Her practice investigates what remains when a form disappears — the duration of bonds, material memory, the tension between the artisanal gesture and the mechanical.
She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (2014) and a Master’s in Interactive Space Design from BTK Berlin (2020). She has exhibited in Argentina, Germany, Portugal, and the United States, and has participated in the Contextile Biennial in Guimarães and the Bienal Sur in Buenos Aires.
Statement
I work with durational textile installations in which a motorized mechanism unravels the textile during the exhibition. The thread accumulates in spools that remain as a memory archive of what was once woven. My practice investigates what remains when a form disappears.
The thread does not disappear — it returns to its previous state, but carrying time. The spools hold the duration of what was: the form is lost, but the matter persists with all its accumulated history. Loss and memory occur simultaneously.
There is a tension between the hand-woven textile — a slow, bodily, intimate gesture — and the mechanism that undoes it. The process is not entirely autonomous: it requires human intervention to continue. Loss requires assistance.
This practice started with a mistake. One day, while knitting, I had to unravel a large part of what I had made. In that gesture — during the pandemic, when questions of time, duration and loss felt urgent — I found more than in the making itself. From there I began investigating unraveling as a practice: what it means to construct something with the intention of undoing it, and what that act reveals about the value of art when it cannot be preserved, collected or reproduced.