8.000 €

Artwork Description

"Tejiendo el Petróleo", Spanish for Weaving the Petroleum, is a series of sculptures made with petroleum from Cabimas, the Venezuelan city where the country’s oil industry was born and Pombo’s mother’s hometown. The series was born from an intention to transform petroleum into yarn, by pulling from molecular gastronomy recipes that transform algae into plastics. "Ligia y Maria José" is named, respectively, after Pombo’s grandmother, and the wife of her uncle Carlos. Both of which helped her unravel the petroleum yarn she made while in Cabimas. The yarn was woven in two looms Pombo made to match the height of these women. These prices exclude VAT.