The work of the Swedish artist based in Colombia, Daniel Nyström, links two languages, and two cultures - the Nordic tradition and the Colombian tradition - in a proposal for universality. Each stitch is an encounter between symbiosis and contrast, creating a sign of a new tangible from the deconstruction of ancestral meanings.

Nyström learned the craft of weaving at an early age thanks to his grandmother, and from then on, his creative intentions were marked. It is from the fabric that Nyström proposes we establish a vital relationship with time and with our sensitive side since its warp refers us to memories of attachment and rootedness. The raw material, wool, is here a narrative thread that denotes a close relationship between human and animal, while the wooden needle - carved by himself - is the guiding instrument. Every stitch basted by Nyström reinvigorates that primordial agreement between the visible and the intangible.

Nyström insists on achieving a connection with our environment through the senses that allow us to identify, analyze and interpret reality, however abstract it may be. For the artist, that is something preponderant in our contemporaneity. Our ability to process information and visualize the whole becomes relevant in a historical moment in which our context constantly provides us with fragmented data. Today, establishing a sensory logic that allows us to engage in non-verbal dialogues with ourselves and with the environment is decisive.

Thus, the artist proposes a series of signs, and evocative figures that suggest something different to each individual since each interprets it from a particularity. Nyström also uses the signs as a tribute to various Latin American cultures that used them as a means of transporting themselves to other spiritual planes, each one from its idiosyncrasy. The focus is on the sign as a context-generating link. What makes something in a given society - an image, a set of words, a gesture, an object, a behaviour - mean something?