• Lulú is a textile artist working across sculpture and installation
• Her work draws inspiration from Mexico's funerary rituals
• She works with onion-skin textiles and salt-crystallised paper sculptures

Time plays a central role in Lulú Osnaya's textile work, as she explores how her materials transform through human and environmental interaction. Drawing on funerary rituals in Mexico, her practice explores how transient materials can give form to what is often intangible. Lulú's background includes studying visual and textile arts at Konstfack University in Stockholm and industrial design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She later worked with artisans in Japan and Mexico, and collaborated with backstrap loom weavers from Gubayelha in Oaxaca. These experiences shaped Lulú's understanding of textile art as both a social bond and a way of communicating across cultures. "I am interested in the small gestures that often go unnoticed and actions that carry intention," she says. "I try to give them presence and allow them to speak."