Siempre Más/Always More: Minga Opazo at Architectural Foundation SB
Photos by Debra Herrick
“We live in an era of excess, we consume and throw away,” says artist and fourth-generation craftsperson from Chile, Minga Opazo. “We don’t see the massive amount of overproduction in our everyday life, it’s invisible to us, tucked away.” Opazo’s exhibition, Siempre Más/Always More, at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, examines the relationship of textiles to climate change. Opazo’s vibrant large-scale weavings and installations made of found and recycled textiles, bring attention to the global ecological harm of textile production, including the “glut of discarded, chemically infused garments . . . that are now being buried under Chilean soil.”
Siempre Más/Always More: Minga Opazo will be on view from September 19 to October 31, 2020 at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara Gallery. afsb.org
