Johanna Unzueta's installation "Cañería verde claro" features a minimalist structure resembling a light green pipe, set against a simple white wall. The piece is composed with clean lines and uniform color, giving an illusion of industrial material seamlessly integrated with its environment. Unzueta employs a style that bridges craft and conceptual art, using hand-tinted natural dyes, reflecting her engagement with Latin American Indigenous craft techniques. The work explores themes of labor, nature, and industrialization, reflecting Unzueta's ongoing dialogue with the socio-historical impact of work on human and natural conditions. ...
Chilean-born, New York-based artist Johanna Unzeuta intertwines components from Chilean craft practices, natural tinting, and repetitive mechanised movement. Unzueta’s creative output addresses the historical, technological, and social effects of labour on the nature of the human condition, as well as its interaction with nature. Employing techniques drawn from Latin American Indigenous craft practices, the paper that serves as the surface for her drawings is tinted by hand using natural dyes associated with the aforementioned practices. ...
