13/09/2026
Ela Fidalgo’s Sistema Blando II explores the body as an affective archive, a place where memory, care, absence and vulnerability take material form.
Working with sewing, embroidery and soft textile materials, Fidalgo constructs fragmented bodies that appear fragile yet resistant. Faces, gestures and organic forms become traces of shared histories, while the act of stitching functions as a gesture of repair: the thread does not hide the wound, but marks it, holds it together and turns it into language.
In “A veces el amor solo sabe quedarse”, love is understood not as movement or resolution, but as permanence: a quiet presence that remains, insists and becomes a form of care. “Antes del Beso” inhabits in the suspended instant before contact, a minimal distance charged with desire, vulnerability and possibility.
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Ela Fidalgo
A veces el amor solo sabe quedarse, 2026
Wooden support covered in soft, semi-transparent tulle, batting figures covered in Cottonet, hand-embroidered with 6/4 cotton thread, hand-sewn face
60 × 40 cm
Ela Fidalgo
Antes del Beso, 2026
Wooden support covered in soft, semi-transparent tulle, batting figures covered in Cottonet, hand-embroidered with 6/4 cotton thread, hand-sewn face
60 × 40 cm
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