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Kenia Almaraz Murillo

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Torre Azul, 2023
Torre Azul, 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool, cotton, acrylic (local Bolivia et France), gold thread (30's, France), neon led, truck lights and steel structure
127 x 114 x 11 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023003

This weaving made of natural materials (alpaca, wool, cotton) and industrial and urban materials (neon lights and truck lights) is characteristic of Kenia Almaraz Murillo's work, between traditional craft and modernity. It is her discovery of the city of Dubai during a recent trip that inspired her to create this luminous weaving that reproduces the verticality of a building. She relates this experience: "That evening, I let myself be guided by all the blue lights of the Marina and its immense buildings, which were for me like giant masks. I felt like I was walking across Easter Island or surrounded by stone totems floating on the ocean. I looked up at the sky, looking for the moon, and among those stars, one tower caught my eye. Torre Azul was born at that moment."

El Niño del caos (Le petit garçon du chaos), 2023
El Niño del caos (Le petit garçon du chaos), 2023
Weaving of wool, alpaca, cotton, acrylic (local Bolivia and France), gold thread (1930s, France), neon led, Plexiglas and steel structure
126 x 124 x 7 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023001

Kenia Almaraz Murillo's artworks are impregnated with South American myths and legends. With El Niño del caos (literally “The Child of Chaos”) she imagines a form of cosmogony. This weaving is for her a tribute to the universe, represented here in an abstract way by the figure of a "small child philosopher who endlessly builds and destroys the galactic matter"

Oryx, 2023
Oryx, 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool, cotton, acrylic (local Bolivia & France), gold threads ( years 1930-40 , France) neon led and steel structure.
96 x 140 x 7 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023002
Águila (Aigle), 2023
Águila (Aigle), 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool, cotton and acrylic (local Bolivia & France), neon led and steel structure.
54 x 117 x 5 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023005

This work is representative of the strong relationship that Kenia Almaraz Murillo has with nature. This weaving was inspired by the observation of the eagles path in the sky. For her, "these wonderful birds that fly over the sky are like spectacular shooting stars. They slowly descend from the sky to the earth and quietly observe the mountains." The neon represents both the light of these stars, as well as the flight of the bird over the horizon.  

Caracol (Escargot), 2023
Caracol (Escargot), 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool, cotton, acrylic (local Bolivia & France), tullma (traditional Bolivian pompoms), gold thread ( 1940s, France) neon led and steel structure
58 x 100 x 5 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023006

Kenia Almaraz Murillo draws the motifs of her weavings from nature. In the work Caracol, a small neon, like an antenna of light, allows her to represent a snail in profile. Is also included in this weaving a tullma, traditional Bolivian pompom, in reference to her origins.

Antenita 1, 2023
Antenita 1, 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool (local Bolivia & France), acrylic, cotton, 18th century gold thread, steel frame and neon led
57 x 60 x 4 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2022005

The weaving Antenitas, which means "little antennas" was imagined by Kenia Almaraz Murillo in memory of games she observed in Bolivia, where children mime little antennas above their heads in order to communicate. In addition to the artist's interest in the animal world, especially insects and ants, it is also the connection between the visible and the invisible represented by the antennas that inspired her for this weaving with vibratory patterns.

Antenita 3, 2023
Antenita 3, 2023
Weaving in alpaca, wool (local Bolivia & France), acrylic, cotton, 18th century gold thread, steel frame and neon led
56 x 60 x 4 cm
© Nano Ville
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2023004

The weaving Antenitas, which means "little antennas" was imagined by Kenia Almaraz Murillo in memory of games she observed in Bolivia, where children mime little antennas above their heads in order to communicate. In addition to the artist's interest in the animal world, especially insects and ants, it is also the connection between the visible and the invisible represented by the antennas that inspired her for this weaving with vibratory patterns.

Cygnes, 2019
Cygnes, 2019
Led neons, bamboos and linen threads
100 cm x 150 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2022002
El Guajojo, 2021
El Guajojo, 2021
Wool, cotton, acrylic, bamboo, palm fiber, wood, neon led and scooter headlights
135 cm x 160 cm x 35 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2021001
Inti #4, 2016
Inti #4, 2016
Oil on canvas
114 cm x 195 cm,
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. KAM2022004

Kenia Almaraz Murillo was born in 1994 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020 with the Congratulations of the Jury. She lives and works in Paris. In weaving, painting and fresco, Kenia tries to transcribe her fascination for the geometric forms and symbols of the Andean textile. In rhythmic compositions, she tries to pay homage to the vibrations of colors that she observes in nature. The use of light allows her to give a symbolic and innovative dimension to traditional weaving. Since 2016, in collaboration with Elliott Causse, she realizes a series of frescoes between Paris and Santa Cruz until investing notably a 123-meter corridor in the heart of a UGC cinema in Paris. In March 2023, she will present her first solo exhibition at the Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou.


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