Threads of Life

This collection brings together the embroideries used as objects of analysis and narrative in the academic article “Fios de Vida: o bordado como etnobiografia visual feminina” (provisional translation: “Threads of Life: embroidery as female visual ethnobiography”). The work was published in the journal Iluminuras (vol. 27, no. 74, 2026), a periodical linked to the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Access the research below to better understand how the symbols dialogue with the embroideries created and how the narrative was used in building the work. The results indicate embroidery as a sensitive and biographical archive, which converts memory, territoriality and female ancestry into visual and tactile language. From this analysis, the conclusion was reached that textile practices expand the concept of biographical narrative and of document, highlighting their potential as a form of symbolic resistance and of situated knowledge production.

The collection consists of four 10cm circular MDF embroidery hoops, featuring embroidery on unbleached cotton fabric.

Year of creation: between 2024 and 2025

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