El sabor de un patacón

With the project El sabor de un patacón, Sofia Archer wants to relate and draw in an experimental way a diasporic territory that, from a symbolic standpoint, is represented as a patacón, a fried plantain, which in many territories of the Global South is cooked, fried, boiled... and can be a link or space of union between diasporas, even the place of other bodies that live in the peripheries of normativity. It can also be heat, it can be "home", it can be memory, it can even be sweat, street and music. For "frontier" lives, here-there-that can be very much connected with this food that is the plantain, a.k.a. patacón.

Through this precious ingredient, Archer takes fashion as a starting point to work it as a collective project of emancipation, a liberating magical space that seeks to create its own tools and narratives, using, in addition, materials exclusively from the workshop's textile waste, recycled family pieces and stock fabric.

Sofia Archer (Barcelona, 1987) is the founder, pattern maker and seamstress of her project Sofia Archer Lab, which functions as a laboratory for textile creation and experimentation. Her work is directly related to her activism and is articulated from a decolonial and anti-racist perspective, in addition to understanding sustainability as a political practice, focusing on wealth from the collective, outside the macro-patrimonies that create inequality, the exploitation of colonised bodies and territories and the prevailing binarism. Through her craft, she seeks to acquire and share tools that activate new narratives, starting from the concept of "making our own clothes" as a premise of self-management and collective emancipation, weaving community to generate other and better future scenarios.

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