Sylvia Sánchez Montoya, a French-Colombian creator, worked for 10 years in fashion, collaborating with artisans in Colombia to produce unique pieces that highlight their craftsmanship. Passionate about material culture, weaving, and knitting, she is interested in how a product communicates its era as a cultural object and how craftsmanship can be a vehicle for broader initiatives that promote resilience and empower rural communities. After 15 years in France, she left the fashion industry, which was increasingly at odds with the constraints imposed by seasonal rhythms. For the past three years, she has been developing an artistic project focused on slow design, centered on local materials such as wool. She creates objects that lie at the intersection of textiles and sculpture, using materials sourced in Mallorca, where she lives, celebrating the language and life of raw, natural fibers.
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