Relation to the space
Dolores Mallea
Before coming to PADA, Dolores wanted to work on folk furniture.
After the tour to the Industrial Park and the History Museum, Dolores felt the need to know more about the history of the plant fibers at CUF (Companhia União Fabril). Below, the book that celebrated the 50 years of CUF, the previous Industrial Park explorer.
Caneleira Schweiter
Library at the History Museum
Textile Analysis
While in her research, Dolores has found an essay about Agave Americana. This resonated with the fact that, while walking in the Industrial Park she could find a very developed sample of this species.
Check part of the process of transforming Agave by Dolores Mallea below ↓
Dolores wrote the poem below while taking multiple journeys from Barreiro to Lisbon, even though she doesn’t consider herself a writer. She wrote it from the perspective as it was mother earth talking with the parts that are constantly extracted from her.
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Above are some images of the PADA 42 exhibition
Dolores Mallea runs a small practice based in Buenos Aires called SUR DEL CRUZ.
Born from the desire to be able to build what they were designing, it is a continuous personal search between profession and craft, which counts on the accompanying team, collaborations from colleague studios, and constant training.
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