Tejer memorias entre Tánger y Karrantza (2026)
Artist’s book
Sewn Carranzana sheep’s wool, embroidery, engraving and laser burning on Mutur Beltz wool felt, incorporating postcards and archival material inside. Laser-engraved Mutur Beltz wool felt, postcards
17.5 × 17.5 × 5.5 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2026.663.2/1-2
Kronolana (2026)
Artist’s book
Sewn Carranzana sheep’s wool, embroidery, engraving and laser burning on Mutur Beltz wool felt, incorporating postcards and archival material inside. Laser-engraved Mutur Beltz wool felt, postcards
17.5 × 17.5 × 5.5 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2026.663.2/2-2
Tejer memorias entre Tánger y Karrantza is an artist’s book conceived as a biographical and affective archive, built from interviews conducted with family members who were born in or raised in Tangier. During these conversations, Laurita Siles began drawing a family tree on a long sheet of paper that accompanied her on her journeys, noting down names, kinship ties, dates, and fragmented stories. This gesture also responded to an intimate need: to understand how these family histories had travelled across generations and reached both herself and her daughter, Lur. The research gradually uncovered episodes linked to exile, imprisonment, Francoist repression, and everyday forms of resistance, giving rise to a publication composed of short biographies, images, and archival fragments understood as traces of an incomplete and emotional memory.
The piece takes the form of a sewn leporello, conceived as a continuous thread that unfolds and folds back on itself just like family memory. Inside, postcards, photographs, and texts coexist, evoking travel, displacement, and intergenerational transmission. Its structure is made from felted wool sourced from Carranzana sheep, while the connections within the family tree have been embroidered using Mutur Beltz wool thread, reinforcing the idea of bond and continuity. The information engraved by laser directly onto the felt creates a textured surface resembling a persistent imprint, shaped by the desire to preserve memory over time.
The Cronolana Yarn Ball emerged from a visit. One day, Mawa arrived at the farmhouse and proposed the idea of telling the story of the ecosystem of people, institutions, animals, places, and affections that Mutur Beltz has woven over the past ten years from the baserri, where art is practiced as one more tool for living, working, and reflecting on the territory.
To trace that thread, Mutur Beltz invited Carla Boserman, who had participated in the Good Living Artistic Residency in 2019. Carla works with relatograms: visual narratives made from drawings and words.
This publication gathers some of the milestones that have marked Mutur Beltz’s trajectory. To draw them, Carla received an almost endless document: an archive of notes, stories, and lived experiences accumulated over the years. As with maps, not everything fits onto the page; yet what appears is enough to suggest everything else. From this material, she has woven a tapestry of drawings: a coarse warp and a weft of texts, images, and annotations that gradually settled into the form of this yarn ball unfolded as a leporello—an accordion of drawings, texts, and notes that now rests in your hands.
Miranda Pérez-Hita accompanied the process through its graphic design and layout, while Roberto Aguirrezabala contributed advice and bookbinding expertise, helping transform this yarn ball into a piece that encapsulates Mutur Beltz’s way of working: beginning with something intimate and familiar and turning it into something collective, driven by the conviction that art can also be a political practice of good living—a way of inhabiting the world with respect for the land, animals, forms of knowledge, and the people who sustain life.
Laurita Siles (Marbella, 1981) lives and works between Karrantza and the Old Port of Algorta (Bizkaia). Awarded a Cum Laude doctorate by the UPV/EHU (2017), her career has been recognised with the European Commission’s ARIA Prize (2025), the National Craft Entrepreneurship Award (2024) and the Basque Government’s Elkarlan Prize (2024), among others.