The Woven Self grows from my experience as a woman shaped by the cultural, social, and psychological forces of my country. It reflects the stories I have lived, the realities I have witnessed, and the intuitions formed through years of reading, learning, and navigating the world as a woman.

In these works, women appear with woven masks that echo the symbolic structures surrounding them. These forms are not literal coverings but psychological constructions created by language, belief, and expectation. They represent the concepts that attach themselves to identity long before a woman can define herself, shaping her sense of self through the world she is born into.

The masks reveal inner conditions such as power, fear, insecurity, love, and memory.
They surface whenever familiar experiences call them forward, yet they are not fixed.
They can be altered or dismantled when a woman becomes the creator of her own
path, building new experiences and reshaping the symbolic order that once confined her.

Drawing from psychoanalytic thought, the idea of the superego appears here as a cultural force that influences behavior, desire, and self perception. Although fragile and constructed, this symbolic order holds immense power because it exists through collective belief. In these sculptures, it is expressed through fractured forms surrounding the figures, a reminder that even the strongest structures can break.

The Woven Self is both personal and universal. It reflects how women inherit, resist, and ultimately transform the narratives that shape their lives.