"OBJECTS AT PLAY" proposes an encounter between football, material culture, and collective imagination through its objects.
[OPENING RECEPTION]
Wed. June 3rd | 6 to 8pm
67 West St. Studio 513
Brooklyn, NY
«Just as sporting idols emerge from a society in need of heroes, objects too carry the weight of collective desire. They move between bodies, histories, and hands, absorbing each gesture along the way.»
—Gimena Garmendia, Curatos and Founder SUDESTADA
Bringing together women artists and designers working across textiles, sculpture, photography, and installation, the exhibition approaches football not as spectacle, but as a system of memory, labor, identity, and transformation.
Through stitching, weaving, casting, patchworking, and material experimentation, familiar objects shift away from function and become surfaces where history, gesture, and collective experience remain inscribed. Here, play operates not as entertainment, but as a mode of making, testing, and reimagining.
Moving between the handmade and the industrial, memory and possibility, the exhibition opens a space where objects are no longer fixed symbols, but sites continuously transformed through use, encounter, and imagination.
object THE BALL
artist MALENA GUERRIERI
capsule LA CAPRICHOSA
artist 100% LEATHER
capsule HAND-STITCHES USING UPCYCLED ARGENTINE LEATHER
"These footballs are made from leather remnants archived in my family’s tannery in Argentina. They are materials that fell out of circulation but still carry memory, craftsmanship, and emotional weight. I’m interested in working with leather not only as the original material of football, but also as a surface where color, handwork, and identity intersect. Each ball reactivates something from a tradition that is slowly disappearing.”
- Malena Guerrieri
object THE FIELD
artist LUCRECIA LIONTI
capsule PONCHO DE CANCHA
materials 100% WOOL
methods HAND-KNITTED WITH TWO NEEDLES
Using rustic wool sourced from northern Argentina, Lucrecia Lionti develops a large-scale knitted structure that moves between garment, landscape, and textile environment.
Conceived as an open system without fixed boundaries, the work shifts between poncho, field, and suspended textile surface, translating the iconic shape of the Argentine poncho into the universal language of football.
"Through this piece, the field becomes something that can be worn, inhabited, and experienced as a shared surface — a space that belongs to everyone, regardless of where they come from.”
- Lucrecia Lionti
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object THE NET
artist LUISA MANTELLI
piece REDE
materials REPURPOSED COTTON THREAD
method HAND CROCHETED
“Rede” is a statement on soccer as a collective ritual and everyday culture. Starting from the goal net and entirely hand-crocheted with repurposed cotton, the piece explores the tension between stillness and ecstasy: the suspended breath before a goal, and the instant when an entire crowd moves as one. It draws from the artist’s domestic and social forms of memory, where football and crochet become shared languages of connection. Playful yet serious, ordinary yet highly symbolic, it shifts from containment to relation, becoming a structure that no longer contains, but connects.
"I've always been fascinated by the moment when a goal happens. Thousands of people holding their breath at once, waiting for the communal release. The net stays still for most of the match, but when it moves, it brings everyone to a collective catharsis. It's the simplest and most effective way of bringing people together."
- Luisa Mantelli
object THE TEAM
artist AGOSTINA HIDALGO
materials 100% SILK ORGANZA WITH UPCYCLED MINIATURE PLASTIC FIGURES
methods HEAT-FUSION
ARMANDO is a capsule collection that explores the idea of building your own team through garments, customization, and play. Combining silk pieces with miniature football figures traditionally used as cake toppers in Argentine childhood celebrations, the project reinterprets sportswear through fantasy, personal expression, and participation.
The title references both the act of “armar” (to assemble or build) and Argentine football icon Diego Armando Maradona, turning the idea of construction into both narrative and method. Within the exhibition, visitors are invited to customize pieces and assemble their own version of a team.
object THE TRACE
artist AGUSTINA MARKEZ
piece COMO NUEVOS
Working from original soccer cleats, Agustina Markez creates silicone casts that preserve traces of use, movement, and physical wear. Removed from their original function, the boots become sculptural imprints suspended between memory, identity, and absence.
object THE RITUAL
artist MAIA TWOMBLYc
piece DAVIDINE
method SIGNAL CHANEL VIDEO
“A homemade football film about performance without consequence. Ten girls in Souvenir David football shorts and Souvenir Italia t-shirts move through a series of amateur training exercises with varying degrees of commitment, skill, confusion, and joy. Somewhere between practice, rehearsal, and parody, the film gently destabilizes the mythology of football culture and its obsession with precision, competition, and spectacle. Nothing really happens, and that’s part of the point. The work is interested in participation detached from achievement: showing up, moving together, trying without necessarily succeeding. Skill becomes secondary to presence, ritual, and play. The girls are not presented as athletes as much as figures inside a shared performance of sport. Homemade in both form and spirit, the film approaches football with lightness, softness, and humor. Celebrating the beauty of collective awkwardness and the freedom of not needing to be good at something in order to belong inside it.”
- Maia Twombly
object THE IMAGE
artist NATHALIE BASOSKI
pieces OPEN FIELD PT.1 | OPEN FIELD PT.2
method SIGNAL CHANEL VIDEO
materials CANVAS
method STITCHED AND TOPSTITCHED
"The green field I never got to play. Growing up, one concrete court had to be everything: handball, basketball, and football. I played on it anyway and spent years dreaming of the open green field."
- Nathalie Basoski
object THE TROPHY
artist AGUSTINA MARKEZ
piece CHAMPION NUMBER 1
The trophy shifts away from its role as a fixed symbol of victory. Through ceramic and mechanical forms, Agustina Markez introduces fragility, instability, and humor into the idea of achievement.
Rather than representing success, the work questions what is being celebrated and how value is constructed through objects.
"OBJECTS AT PLAY" proposes an encounter between football, material culture, and collective imagination through its objects.
[OPENING RECEPTION]
Wed. June 3rd | 6 to 8pm
67 West St. Studio 513
Brooklyn, NY
«Just as sporting idols emerge from a society in need of heroes, objects too carry the weight of collective desire. They move between bodies, histories, and hands, absorbing each gesture along the way.»
—Gimena Garmendia, Curatos and Founder SUDESTADA
Bringing together women artists and designers working across textiles, sculpture, photography, and installation, the exhibition approaches football not as spectacle, but as a system of memory, labor, identity, and transformation.
Through stitching, weaving, casting, patchworking, and material experimentation, familiar objects shift away from function and become surfaces where history, gesture, and collective experience remain inscribed. Here, play operates not as entertainment, but as a mode of making, testing, and reimagining.
Moving between the handmade and the industrial, memory and possibility, the exhibition opens a space where objects are no longer fixed symbols, but sites continuously transformed through use, encounter, and imagination.
object THE BALL
artist MALENA GUERRIERI
capsule LA CAPRICHOSA
artist 100% LEATHER
capsule HAND-STITCHES USING UPCYCLED ARGENTINE LEATHER
"These footballs are made from leather remnants archived in my family’s tannery in Argentina. They are materials that fell out of circulation but still carry memory, craftsmanship, and emotional weight. I’m interested in working with leather not only as the original material of football, but also as a surface where color, handwork, and identity intersect. Each ball reactivates something from a tradition that is slowly disappearing.”
- Malena Guerrieri
object THE FIELD
artist LUCRECIA LIONTI
capsule PONCHO DE CANCHA
materials 100% WOOL
methods HAND-KNITTED WITH TWO NEEDLES
Using rustic wool sourced from northern Argentina, Lucrecia Lionti develops a large-scale knitted structure that moves between garment, landscape, and textile environment.
Conceived as an open system without fixed boundaries, the work shifts between poncho, field, and suspended textile surface, translating the iconic shape of the Argentine poncho into the universal language of football.
"Through this piece, the field becomes something that can be worn, inhabited, and experienced as a shared surface — a space that belongs to everyone, regardless of where they come from.”
- Lucrecia Lionti
Inquire about the piece
object THE NET
artist LUISA MANTELLI
piece REDE
materials REPURPOSED COTTON THREAD
method HAND CROCHETED
“Rede” is a statement on soccer as a collective ritual and everyday culture. Starting from the goal net and entirely hand-crocheted with repurposed cotton, the piece explores the tension between stillness and ecstasy: the suspended breath before a goal, and the instant when an entire crowd moves as one. It draws from the artist’s domestic and social forms of memory, where football and crochet become shared languages of connection. Playful yet serious, ordinary yet highly symbolic, it shifts from containment to relation, becoming a structure that no longer contains, but connects.
"I've always been fascinated by the moment when a goal happens. Thousands of people holding their breath at once, waiting for the communal release. The net stays still for most of the match, but when it moves, it brings everyone to a collective catharsis. It's the simplest and most effective way of bringing people together."
- Luisa Mantelli
object THE TEAM
artist AGOSTINA HIDALGO
materials 100% SILK ORGANZA WITH UPCYCLED MINIATURE PLASTIC FIGURES
methods HEAT-FUSION
ARMANDO is a capsule collection that explores the idea of building your own team through garments, customization, and play. Combining silk pieces with miniature football figures traditionally used as cake toppers in Argentine childhood celebrations, the project reinterprets sportswear through fantasy, personal expression, and participation.
The title references both the act of “armar” (to assemble or build) and Argentine football icon Diego Armando Maradona, turning the idea of construction into both narrative and method. Within the exhibition, visitors are invited to customize pieces and assemble their own version of a team.
object THE TRACE
artist AGUSTINA MARKEZ
piece COMO NUEVOS
Working from original soccer cleats, Agustina Markez creates silicone casts that preserve traces of use, movement, and physical wear. Removed from their original function, the boots become sculptural imprints suspended between memory, identity, and absence.
object THE RITUAL
artist MAIA TWOMBLY
piece DAVIDINE
method SIGNAL CHANEL VIDEO
“A homemade football film about performance without consequence. Ten girls in Souvenir David football shorts and Souvenir Italia t-shirts move through a series of amateur training exercises with varying degrees of commitment, skill, confusion, and joy. Somewhere between practice, rehearsal, and parody, the film gently destabilizes the mythology of football culture and its obsession with precision, competition, and spectacle. Nothing really happens, and that’s part of the point. The work is interested in participation detached from achievement: showing up, moving together, trying without necessarily succeeding. Skill becomes secondary to presence, ritual, and play. The girls are not presented as athletes as much as figures inside a shared performance of sport. Homemade in both form and spirit, the film approaches football with lightness, softness, and humor. Celebrating the beauty of collective awkwardness and the freedom of not needing to be good at something in order to belong inside it.”
- Maia Twombly
object THE IMAGE
artist NATHALIE BASOSKI
pieces OPEN FIELD PT.1 | OPEN FIELD PT.2
method SIGNAL CHANEL VIDEO
materials CANVAS
method STITCHED AND TOPSTITCHED
"The green field I never got to play. Growing up, one concrete court had to be everything: handball, basketball, and football. I played on it anyway and spent years dreaming of the open green field."
- Nathalie Basoski
object THE TROPHY
artist AGUSTINA MARKEZ
piece CHAMPION NUMBER 1
The trophy shifts away from its role as a fixed symbol of victory. Through ceramic and mechanical forms, Agustina Markez introduces fragility, instability, and humor into the idea of achievement.
Rather than representing success, the work questions what is being celebrated and how value is constructed through objects.
designed by metamensaje
© La Sudestada