Artists

Patricia Belli

Press release

Dirt and Myth is Patricia Belli’s first solo exhibition in Germany at daadgalerie. Belli was born in 1964 in Managua, Nicaragua, and was a fellow of the Artists-in-Berlin Program (BKP) in 2021/2022.

Working across a range of disciplines, Patricia Belli mobilizes fibers, everyday objects, and handcrafted media to explore the entanglement between bodies and systems, and the precarious balance that conditions them against structures of violence. Touching on themes related to gender, sexuality, and processes of transformation, her works bring to the surface a textural language that is rooted in a multiplicity of desires. Working with the body and lived experience as starting points, Belli recuperates somatic sensibilities as an archive of knowledge and site of articulation. Through sewing and other craft-based practices, she gives texture to that which is fragile, feminized, and otherwise precarious. By giving form to marginal bodies that are situated between local and global contexts, her practice materializes as a counter-poetics to heteropatriarchal systems.