Regina Dejimenez

Textile sculptor

©Natalia Vazquez

Landscapes built from cloth

Regina has been working textiles since she was a child
Travel plays a fundamental role in her work
She uses recycled and natural materials in her creations

Although she was trained in Fine Arts, Regina Digiorgis Jimenez' first teacher was her mother, a designer and seamstress who taught her how to work with fabric, sewing techniques and gave her a taste for quality. After her studies and travelling around the world on scholarships, acquiring further skills, Regina spent time in Chile where she studied spinning and the Mapuche loom. She later lived for three years in a village in Asturias where she learned hemstitching and knitting with the grandmothers of the area. Her first big project was to weave seven panels with rope for the NOBU Hotel in Barcelona in 2020. Since then, she has been making textile art for interior design, haute couture for decoration and art pieces to be integrated into living spaces.

Interview

©Natalia Vazquez

©Natalia Vazquez

How do you like to work with textiles?: My technique could be said to integrate several techniques into a single output. I work the fabric from the yarn to the 3D volume. I spin, weave, model, structure and elevate a building in fabric. I identify as much with the process of a spinning wheel as I do with architecture.
What usually inspires you?: I am inspired by the movements of the earth and its geographical features: the dissolution, the multiplication, the geometric and the abstract, organic life, the amplification of the microscopic, and the light that bathes it all. I seek to express the complexity and depth of nature.
Is the idea of territory related to your work?: I work at a global level but I live in a rural area of the province of Alicante. My work is continually enriched by new ways of doing, the deepening of traditional and local techniques. I am currently researching the palm heart technique and its ecological, artisan and legislative situation.
What do you enjoy most about your work?: I like the confrontation with the transformation of matter, the hours of inner silence while I create, the constant development, the challenges, the teamwork, the infinite source of inspiration from the past and the challenge of bringing it to the future.

Regina Dejimenez is a master artisan: she began her career in 2005 and she started teaching in 2012