Design Miami 2025

For Design Miami 2025, Cristina Grajales presents Woven Territory, a solo exhibition by Hechizoo Textiles – an atelier she first introduced at the fair twenty years ago. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a continuation — a line pulled taut across decades, skill, and memory.

The works read like cartography – not digital, but hand-touched, sun-creased, storied. Sunrises, forests, ocean tides, ancestral land – woven not as representation but as translation. Metal, wood, and natural fibers shift between landscape and abstraction, where traditional weaving doesn’t shake hands with contemporary design – it elopes with it.

Woven Territory isn’t simply an exhibition. It’s terrain. It’s archive. It reminds us that weaving is memory in physical form — a landscape you can touch, a story held in tension between thread and time. A territory mapped not by borders, but by the hands that make.

WORDS BY: Michael Hilal

“Recently, I found myself in Bogotá – invited by Cristina Grajales and Richard Petit of The Archers – ostensibly for an artistic journey. A charming understatement, considering we were really thrown head-first into Colombia’s creative bloodstream. A curated cluster of designers and thinkers followed Cristina like obedient pilgrims, fully aware we were being rewired. Bogotá doesn’t just stay with you – it moves in, rearranges the furniture, and leaves the windows open.

We visited artists whose work doesn’t merely represent Colombia – it radiates outwards, shifting global conversations around materiality, memory, and technique. Studios were sanctuaries. Homes felt like galleries. Galleries felt like family. And everywhere – warmth.

Generosity. A sense of community so intact it made the rest of the world feel slightly under-cooked.

Cristina was the gravitational center. She has spent decades championing artisanship and innovation – not as branding language, but as a life practice. A founding gallerist of Design Miami, she returns for the vicennial with the same clarity she’s always had: real craft matters, and the world should feel it, not just view it.”