In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Renan Estivan, a São Paulo-based contemporary embroidery and textile art artist known for queer tapestries that put the male body at their centre.
In Part 1 we get into his mum's Arraíolos rugs and the embroidery tradition she passed on, choosing design at UNESP over art, how the pandemic in Salvador collided with a pixel-art drawing to spark his first erotic cross stitch, his shift onto the tufting gun, and the Brazilian tapestry lineage running from Kennedy Bahia and Tropicália through Leonilson.
Links:
Website: renanestivan.com (https://www.renanestivan.com/)
Instagram: renan.estivan (https://www.instagram.com/renan.estivan/)
Intro music is Ordinary Love by Vicki Vox via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/3403dx) .
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