CONDICIONES DE LEGIBILIDAD I

Born from research developed during the GlogauAir Berlin 2024 Residency, this series explores the complexity of female identity in tension with social norms and technological advancement. Using her own worn clothing as primary material — garments charged with lived experience — Englebert builds a visual language that probes the layers of social conditioning and subjectivity that shape the contemporary female psyche.

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"Condiciones de Legibilidad I" works with the genetic information of the artist’s chromosome 1, translated into binary code and subsequently woven in chaguar fiber by Beatriz Gómez, a Wichí artisan from the community of Santa Victoria II (Salta, Argentina) and member of the women’s collective Oichena. The work is situated at the intersection of biotechnology, textile practices, and feminist epistemologies, proposing a reading of DNA not as objective, decontextualized data, but as a material and situated archive. The translation of the genetic sequence into binary—the foundational language of computational systems—reveals the apparent neutrality of technical codes, which is here disrupted by a bodily, manual, and temporal mediation. The act of weaving introduces friction, error, rhythm, and delay, reinscribing biological data within a non-extractive regime of meaning.

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From a feminist perspective, the choice of a Wichí woman as the agent of this translation is constitutive of the work. Indigenous textile knowledge, historically transmitted among women, has operated as a complex system of symbolic organization, memory, and knowledge, even as it has been systematically delegitimized. In Solutio, this piece functions as a gesture of self-construction: the artist’s genetic body is not asserted as essence or origin, but as a relational process built with other women and other forms of knowledge. Female identity thus emerges not as a fixed datum, but as an ever-evolving weave in which the biological, the technical, and the cultural are intertwined and continuously redefined.