Directress Paula Riquelme takes us on a trip into the world of Maraña: “I like that in the audience, each one has a different version of what they are seeing. Being so abstract, the spectators look for preconfigured images and somehow create their own story.”
Chilean visual artist Paula Riquelme had spent the last three years weaving and knitting. Paula had created a complete universe knitted from wool. A living world with its own inhabitants, full of colors, sensations and sounds. A place with no references, where the audience connects with the very basic shapes of human subconsciousness.
“The word Maraña means entanglement. I like it when things are confusing, and they are all mixed up. It is something marañoso.”
Paula arrived in Berlin in early 2016, tired of working based on what clients ask her to do. "Clients were always asking for things like Cirque du Soleil or cabaret performances, so it became quite boring. At one point I didn't know if I was able to create anything without a client asking me to do it. So, to get out of that creative stalemate, we decided, together with my family, to take all our savings and come to Berlin for a year and not think about money or work, but concentrate a whole year on creating, developing a project without having the pressure of looking for a job or making a living. So I wasn't thinking about selling a project and my mindset was what can I create without having the need to sell it?”
“Maraña was born because I didn't have to think about anything commercial.”
“Maraña is not concrete, it does not tell you a linear story. My idea is to take the audience from what they are used to seeing. And there may be shapes that appear to you like an ice cream cone, while another person can see a penis. Everyone sees what they want to see.”