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Studio AiR Green 2025

Studio AiR Green is our 8 week residency for one artist

Luis Renteria

Autumn 2025

Luis Renteria (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in

cinematography. He lives and works between Barcelona and Guadalajara. He studied Textile Art

at Escola Massana and completed a Master's degree in Artistic Research and Production at the

University of Barcelona. His work combines traditional techniques and references to vernacular

art to explore socially relevant themes through fiction and fantasy.

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In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, I find inspiration in physical objects and manual

labour. Materials are the spark of my practice. I am interested in dismantling their meanings and

rethinking their potential uses.

I see textiles as a precise tool for assembling objects and materials, a medium that allows the

fragile to merge with the structural. For me, textiles symbolise connection and resilience,

forming a bridge between times, territories, and bodies. Their tactile quality fosters an intimate

relationship with materials and evokes a shared human experience: that of creating with our

hands.

Through working with thread, I seek to explore the tensions between permanence and

ephemerality, solidity and vulnerability. This duality runs through my artistic research and

shapes the objects I produce.

The stories contained within materials—their origins, movements, and uses—guide me in

creating works that activate memory and invite reflection on our relationship with the

environment, with time, and with ways of making. Craft practices, with their slow and deliberate

rhythm, offer a counterpoint to the speed of contemporary life. They invite us to pause, observe,

and recognise the stories that emerge from the acts of touching, spinning, and constructing.


 

"At the Air Green residency, I would like to explore the region and let the landscape and its

stories influence my weaving work. I wish to learn from the local mythology and pay special

attention to what is small, until it becomes visible.."

Luis Renteria
 

Former
AiR Studio residents

Chen-Yu Wang
Spring 2025

Chen-Yu Wang is a Taiwanese artist, researcher and factory girl currently based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She holds a MA in Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven and BA in Fashion Textiles from Ravensbourne University London.

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Deborah Jeromin

Spring 2024

Deborah Jeromin was born 1987 in Flensburg (Germany), lives and works between Leipzig (Germany) and Crete (Greece). She develops a research on mainly historical topics and makes them accessible through different media. She focuses on textile handcraft processes and memories, feminist history and sites of National Socialism. Her documentary “Riven Threads“ was shown on DOK Leipzig (2020) an Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2021). 2020 she published the book „parachutesilk.“

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Portrait photo: Katharina Wittmann

Forough Absalan

Fall 2024

Absalan is an artist based in Berlin, originally from Iran, currently staying in Oslo.​ During the Air Green Artist Residency, Forough plans to focus on her current project titled with every grandma that falls, a mountain dies. This multimedia-textileart-installation is a tribute to the fading archives of ancestral knowledge, cultural practices, and the ecological damage intertwined with their loss

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