
STATEMENT
My work addresses the desire to inhabit oneself.
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.
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.
I embrace the void as an ally, and the total loss of reference as a driving force.
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
Textile artist and industrial designer, graduate of the Universidad de la República. Montevideo, 1992.
My work emerges from a silent intuition translated into visual poetry—presences that do not impose themselves, but find their place and remain.
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.
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
Finalist, Art Jove Visual Arts Competition, Mallorca / 2024
CATALOGUE ARTIST
Galería Único, Barcelona / 2022
COLLABORATIONS
Team 7, Salone del Mobile, Milán / 2025
Manos del Uruguay, Uruguay / 2019
Finalist, Uruguay Teje by Texturable, Uruguay / 2022
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
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
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

PRESS

Design Milk / 2025
Chalet Cocagne · Valais, Suiza
Interior Design: Marianne Tiegen
Featured in Design Milk · october

AD Spain / 2025
Styling: The Santa Living
Interior Design: Martin Pelaz Studio


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Openhouse / 2025
Exhibition: Soul of Matiere
Gallery: SM Bureau Galerie.
Writer Patty Castelar



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NARRATIVES /
SUBSTACK
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."


