Queering materiality and language, Pablo Vindel reimagines presence, absence, and belonging—crafting spaces of and for transformation.
Flying garment I ~ Profecía: El agua ensimismada reimagines the family heirloom as a site of memory and transformation. The suspended garment, modeled after a shirt worn by the artist’s grandmother, becomes both a personal artifact and metaphor for origin and change.
Pierced by nearly a hundred gold-dipped needles, the garment forms a collar-like structure at the neck. This meticulous, hand-executed threading and the reimagining of collar as a scalp speaks to the labor of memory—an act of endurance and creation. The design, which ends in the waist, subtly evokes the womb, transforming an intimate space into a metaphysical gesture of inception.
Crafted from translucent indigo hide and adorned with gold thread and embroidery needles, the materials convey both reverence and fragility. Flying garment I ~ Profecía: El agua ensimismada embodies a meditation on inheritance, transformation, and the resilience of memory. In its suspended presence, it evokes the ongoing dialogue between past and future—where legacies are not merely preserved but reimagined and passed down through time. In tandem with Flying garment II, the pair reinvisions familial heirlooms, becoming vessels of transformation.