"For Rafaela, these words represent the forces of modernity that define and restrict how we relate to the world. Her work is a critique of the language that drives capitalist structures and how it perpetuates a cycle of waiting and inaction. In her piece MALDITA PACIENCIA, Rafaela confronts the tension between patience as a cultural virtue and its darker, more paralyzing implications.
However, Rafaela challenges this notion of patience, suggesting that it's often a form of resistance that keeps us in a state of waiting, without action. This, she argues, is a form of blindness, where people are unable to act or change because they are too absorbed in the idea of "waiting for something to happen."
Cecilia Casabona
for the publication of the exhibition "un diseño sin Design"
Patience tricks me into creating ambitious pieces and becomes a form of resistance, tenacity, resilience, escape, and refuge from everything I have patience for. Maldita paciencia is also an axis manifested through obsessive embroidery, which, in turn, stems from a process in which I try to explore my relationship with the world. Trying to represent what my hands want to do rather than creating a visual representation of an expected image. In other words, I'm trying to describe my roots to the world through an empirical intuition of what my hands want to make. Or more precisely, investigating roots, connections, and relationships through the ritual of my process. It is a corporeal exploration and an artisanal manifestation. I have set free the ambitions of my hands because their (technical) obsessions, I now realize, are a glimpse of a suspension, a space, a silence, a tension between me and the world.
