INÊS QUEIRÓS

Threads of Resilience unfolds within textile traditions shaped by women’s hands, where weaving and embroidery carry histories of work, care, and transmission. Across cultures and time, these practices have formed social and symbolic structures, often unseen, yet deeply embedded in daily life.

From ancestral gestures, Inês Queirós develops woven works accompanied by text, where weaving becomes a metaphor for the eclipse. Like the new moon, unseen yet present, her weaves attend to what withdraws from visibility: hidden labour, cyclical time, and the quiet force that moves between absence and emergence. Threads, tensions, and shadows compose fragile surfaces that hold what sustains without spectacle.

Alongside them, Claudia A. Cruz’s embroideries unfold as intimate inscriptions. Stitch becomes a way of marking memory, repetition, and lived experience, allowing personal and collective histories to surface through the body of cloth.

Together, the works approach textile practice as a shared language, one that gathers feminine narratives, honours inherited knowledge, and invites a re-seeing of labour not as background, but as a social and economic presence that shapes how worlds are held, formed, and carried forward.