Lisa Britzger

In the period surrounding the birth of her daughter, Paula Hurtado Otero reflected on the compatibility of motherhood, housework and artistic practice. While an Afghan friend showed her how Persian carpets are knotted, stories about the economic situation of Persian carpet weavers become linked to her own life situation. Every time the artist’s work was interrupted due to the needs of the newborn child, she changed the colour of the wool. In the video work ‘After failure came the light’, which refers to the earlier knotting work, Paula Hurtado Otero shares her protocol of this on the one hand monotonous, meditative, physically tiring work process and its temporal logic, which is clocked by the simultaneity of care work and artistic work.