
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.



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
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.“

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





