The workshop of the last winner of the National Prize for Plastic Arts It is not covered with paint or the dust of the sculptures, only with pieces of fabric and remains of thread. Cotton and wool are the raw materials with which Teresa Lanceta has been expressing itself since the 70s until now, surprised having been recognized with this award. “I was surprised that they loved me,” she says in an interview with laSexta Noticias.

Her next work, which she shows us for the first time before hanging in an exhibition in Valladolid, is an embroidery that speaks of forgotten women. His interest in looms began thanks to Moroccan weavers. In fact, the day they announced to him that he had won, he saw the images on television. of the Moroccan earthquakewhile crying.

“They are places where I have lived“, he remembers. But the prize, despite not believing in prizes because he claims other types of aid for creation, “surprisingly,” he says, changed his day. Since then, his large tapestries and rugs have hung in museums around all over the world: Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Venice and Barcelona, ​​where he long ago broke with the prejudice of considering art what was previously only seen as crafts.

“It is a way of expressing oneself like painting or video, that is already completely accepted and integrated in museums,” he acknowledges. His inspiration also comes from his childhood memories, when he traveled to town and saw his uncles mending their clothes to extend their life with darns or patches from other clothes. Because his art shows that a needle can be as noble as a brush when the important thing is the ideas to express.