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STATEMENT

My work addresses the desire to inhabit oneself.

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Through writing and textiles, I obsessively reflect while simultaneously distrusting reflection. I seek both evasion and presence. I live and work within that contradiction, because what is true does not demand to be understood.

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I work with raw Uruguayan and Spanish wool—materials rooted in the territories I inhabit, as distinct as they are contradictory. I write to save myself, and turn to the loom when words no longer suffice.

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I embrace the void as an ally, and the total loss of reference as a driving force.

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I create to remember that, amidst narratives dominated by fear, dehumanization, and fragmentation, it is urgent to reclaim quiet spaces where we can pause and think for ourselves, in order to cultivate our own humanity.

Ana Grajales. Artista textil, Diseñadora Industrial.

ANA GRAJALES

Textile artist and industrial designer, graduate of the Universidad de la República. Montevideo, 1992.

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My work emerges from a silent intuition translated into visual poetry—presences that do not impose themselves, but find their place and remain.

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Wool returned to my life in 2017—it returned to transform pain and weave together fragments of life. In 2021, after a vacation in Mallorca, I decided to move to the island.

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I embarked on a return journey to this land—one very similar, yet quite different, to the one my ancestors took over 80 years ago, from Spain to Uruguay.

BACKGROUND

Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño, FADU                    / 2012-16

Universidad de la República del Uruguay - Industrial Designer

 RECOGNITION

Finalist, Sessùn Craft Prize Flowering, París                            /   2026

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Finalist, Art Jove Visual Arts Competition, Mallorca              /   2024

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CATALOGUE ARTIST

Galería Único, Barcelona                                             /  2022

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COLLABORATIONS

Team 7, Salone del Mobile, Milán                             /  2025

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Manos del Uruguay, Uruguay                                   /  2019

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Finalist, Uruguay Teje by Texturable, Uruguay                       /    2022

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ARCHIVES & GUIDES

Homo Faber Guide, Michelangelo Foundation                     /   2025

Archivo X, counter-hegemonic archive, Uruguay.                 /   2024

ART FAIRS

CAN Art Fair Ibiza, OFF Program, Formentera       /   2026

XTANT Huaca, Mallorca                                             /   2025

La Hacería, España                                                                      /   2025

Uruguay Natural / Uruguay Wools                                             /   2017

EXHIBITIONS

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

Existir es transitar, CAN Art Fair Ibiza,                             /   2026

OFF Program. Five Flowers, Formentera​                   

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Entre el Cielo y la Tierra, Sa Ferreria                                /   2026

Campos, Mallorca.

Natura 2.0,  Can Gelabert,                                                 /   2025

Featured Solo Room in Group Show, Binissalem, Mallorca                 

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Nuevas Identidades, Mallorca                                           /   2024

Articopes (Solo Room), Art Jove Visual Arts Competition Finalist Exhibition, Binissalem, Mallorca

Soul of Matière                                                                    /   2025

SM Bureau Galerie, curated by Polina Torbina. Francia, París

Art i Copes                                                                           /   2025

Curated by David Campaner. Sa Pobla , Mallorca

Veinte horas y diecinueve minutos                                  /   2025

Open Studio 79, curated by Tatiana Sarasa. España, Palma de Mallorca​

Stars                                                                                      /   2025

The House of the Sisters. Uruguay, Pueblo Grazón​

Territorio Textil, Museo de Porreres,                                 /   2024

Curated by Tomeu Simonet. Porreres, Mallorca

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Flowering, Sessùn Craft Prize                                            /   2026

Galerie Joseph Francia , París​

Tras la nieve el silencio.                                                      /   2026

Open Studio 79. España, Mallorca

Traços d'Art                                                                          /   2026

Can Garau Sencelles, Mallorca

Incart                                                                                    /   2026

Claustro de Santo Domingo Inca, Mallorca

Fórum Llanatura                                                                 /   2024

Exhibition & speaker. Inca, Mallorca

Contornos desiguales, Galería Raco Art,                         /   2024

Curated by Ann-Marie Manker. Santa Eugenia, Mallorca

The Vase                                                                               /   2024

Estudio AAA, curated by Arina Antonova España, Palma de Mallorca​

ELLAS 3.0 at CAMPO GARZÓN                                         /   2022

Group Exhibition with Texturable Uruguay Collective, Pueblo Garzón

Ana Grajales, exhibition.

PRESS

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Design Milk                         /  2025

 

Chalet Cocagne · Valais, Suiza
Interior Design: Marianne Tiegen 
Featured in Design Milk · october

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AD Spain                              /  2025

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Styling: The Santa Living

Interior Design: Martin Pelaz Studio

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Nuevo Estilo                        /  2025

 

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Spain

Writer: Gema Marcos

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Home Magazine Officiel  /  2025

 

Làrt de la laine

Writer: Melanie Vassart

France

 

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El País                                   /  2022

 

 

Writer: Analía Filosi

Uruguay.

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Openhouse                           /   2025

 

Exhibition: Soul of Matiere

Gallery: SM Bureau Galerie.

Writer Patty Castelar

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Arquitectura y Diseño         /  2026

 

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Spain

Writer: David Quesada

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Revista Galería                         /  2025

 

 

​Búsqueda, Uruguay.

Writer: Sofia Supervielle

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El País                                        /  2024

 

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Writer: Analía Filosi

Uruguay.

 

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NARRATIVES   /

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I write to save myself, and turn to the loom when words no longer suffice.

The hidden

 

"I have been watching the moon for as long as I can remember.

I can stare at it for hours.

It brings me relief, as if for a moment I could empty myself out and breathe a little easier.

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Sometimes it is not about merely seeing things, but stopping to truly look at them. To discover what they have to show us."

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