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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. Regulito & Carlitos is composed of two fishing nets dipped into the material used to make petroleum-algae yarn. After seeing the labor-intensive process of making the yarn and later weaving the studies, Carlos (another uncle of Pombo) left and came back with fishing nets from his fisherman friends to dip them in the material. Work smarter, not harder, he said. The act of making the yarn and weaving is the work, she said, before agreeing to dip the nets with the help of her uncles. It was after all a collaboration. The work is named after the nicknames of these two uncles. These prices exclude VAT.