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ENLIGHTENMENT
PORTAL

SIAF (Lantern) | Sharjah Art Museum | Department of Culture

Enlightenment Portal serves as a metaphorical beacon—revealing unseen spiritual dimensions through material craft and poetic sound as an immersive piece with the recording of the weaving in her studio plays hidden as a murmur in the gallery space. Swinburn’s woven manuscripts are vessels of light—transmitting knowledge, preserving memory, and inviting transformation. By reimagining sacred objects through a contemporary lens, Swinburn offers a profound meditation on heritage, faith, and transcendence.

Until January 31st 2026

NOW!

SPOTIFY

Exited to share the launch of Catalina Swinburn in Spotify with the piece NO LAND 'The Water Ceremony'.

The sound piece, specially designed for the premier work to be displayed in Encounters ArtBasel Hong Kong with Selma Feriani, acts as an immersive experience inspired in a poem by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (b. c. 1535; d. c. 1615), one of the most polemic and most admired native authors of the colonial period considered a primary source of information on the pre-Columbian Andean world and on the first decades of Spanish colonization. Recorded with the performative action of weaving in the artist studio as part of the ritual to complete this 5 totems journey of this memories of shared cartographies.

The artwork is therefore activated by the artist’s position as both fabricator and performer of the sculpture. This could be seen as a metaphor for resistance, where woven narratives are portrayed as a substitute for the silence of women throughout history.

ANALEPSIS

OPEN BOOK

AMAKIN 21,39 INANNA

PENELOPE

NO LAND WATER CEREMONY

The recycling aspect in this work happens through many dimensions: content, form and process. Following her performances, the works become sculptures with a history of their own and result in an amalgamation of history and memory. Regenerating these narratives articulates for the artist both a sense of urgency and a mode of resistance.

Catalina’s work translate into key messages and universal concerns such as: sustainability, identity, gender equality and globalization underlining the connections of the Global South throughout history.

It is “Aida”, whose pages are ripped off to make portable sarcophagi of the letter, which makes the tombstones of the unidentified fallen become archaeological findings of a present forced to be recognized acknowledged as a vestige of a damaged memory.

THE STUDIO

Combining the local crafts with the global trends; and showing how selected geographies share universal and mutual creative affinities.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2024 NO LAND THE WATER CEREMONY

Encounters Art Basel
Hong Kong

2023 REVOLUTIONARY MYTHS

Or les Murs, Selma Feriani Gallery,
Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK.

2022 OPEN BOOK

Public Space Permanent Pavillion,
Plaza Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2022 21,39 AMAKIN

Curated by Venetia Porter,
Jeddah, RK of Saudi Arabia.

2022 UNTITLED II

Selma Feriani Gallery.
Tunis, Tunisia

2022 ARCHIVES FROM THE FUTURE

Selma Feriani Gallery & Aninat Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London, UK

2023 ANALEPSIS

Arcomadrid
@AninatGaleria Booth 7c20

2022 CROWN LETTER

Institute Francais, Kyoto,
Japan in partnership with Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa & Baron de Lesta

2021 ARCHAIC CONTINGENCY

Selma Feriani Gallery.
Cromwell Place. London.

2018 NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT

Selma Feriani Gallery.
Tunis, Tunisia.

2016 LA FRONTERA PERFECTA

Centro Cultural Matta.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2016 FISSURES

Selma Feriani Gallery. Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia 2013 ArqueologÍa Anticipada.
Isabel Aninat Gallery. Santiago de Chile, Chile

PUBLICATIONS

Catalina’s work translate into key messages and universal concerns such as: sustainability, identity, gender equality and globalization underlining the connections of the Global South throughout history.

Matters of Material, Christies London.

WE DEFY PARADIGMS

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