Craft Becomes Conversation At INTERWOVEN In Seville

The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship presents INTERWOVEN, on view at Seville’s Real Fábrica de Artillería through November 23, 2025. The inaugural edition of the Homo Faber Capsule series transforms the historic foundry into a showcase of material innovation, introducing a global language of making rooted in process, elevated by form, and alive with the tactile poetry of design.

Homo Faber is a global movement championing contemporary craftsmanship through educational programs, a biennial showcase, and an online platform. “Positive feedback from the Homo Faber Biennial, combined with our desire to nurture the Homo Faber Guide community, sparked the idea to create INTERWOVEN, the first in a series of capsule collections to be showcased in cities around the world,” says Alberto Cavalli, executive director of the Michelangelo Foundation. INTERWOVEN unites 35 artisans from 15 countries, exploring how craft links cultures, materials, and histories. True to its name, it celebrates the ties between tradition and innovation, local identity and global collaboration. Each work tells a story of transformation—heritage reimagined through experimentation, technology, and hybrid forms.

The exhibition also marks a milestone for the Homo Faber Guide, which now welcomes American artisans and studios, connecting U.S. makers with an international network of designers, collectors, and curators. Following an open call, more than 800 submissions were reviewed by the Homo Faber sourcing team before a nine-member jury—including American curator Nora Atkinson—selected the final group.

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Explore INTERWOVEN Show Highlights

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Porcelain meets couture in Chilean artist Bernardita Cossio’s Memora where stitched leather molds immortalize each fold and seam as a fossilized memory of craft.

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In An Expanded Fragment Series: Oriental Blue, Korean artist Minyeol Cho transforms discarded denim into sculptural vessels that meditate on resilience and time. Layered and bonded textiles from Seoul’s sewing workshops take on new life, turning everyday fabric into a quiet study of labor and touch.

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Extending this theme of reuse, Spanish artist Nati Rodríguez creates Sea of Jeans, an innovative biomaterial shaped in domestic molds and dried under the Andalusian sun—a tribute to women’s ancestral craft reframed as contemporary sculpture.

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Developed through an experimental process, Japanese artist Kazuhiro Toyama’s Biophilia; Hatch Vessel merges traditional metalwork with industrial technique. Molten metal is layered onto a steel frame with an acetylene torch and plasma cutter, forging a hybrid form that bridges the ancient and the modern.

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Belgian artist Pierre-Yves Morel’s Arlecchino reinterprets a 19th-century dresser in harlequin diamonds of hand-painted glass and wood. Using oil paint, beer glaze, and verre églomisé, he turns craft into performance.

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In Supercoil, Danish artisan Lea Mi Engholm intertwines the pliancy of rope with the solidity of clay. Rolled and twisted by hand, each strand freezes motion in a sculptural knot of tension and grace.

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Moroccan atelier Brodeuse Voyageuse weaves Marrakech to Lyon from Moroccan wool, Senegalese cotton, and French silk, connecting geographies through texture and tradition.

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Seville master Francisco Carrera Iglesias honors his city’s gold-thread embroidery heritage with Cup, entwining metallic threads and sequins around a brass frame to transform devotion into contemporary form.

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French collaborators Xavier Montoy, Eve George, and Laurent Fichot stage a botanical standoff in Battlefield, a poetic chessboard of plant species reflecting nature’s struggle for balance.

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In Abstraction, French artist Ferri Garcès folds thousands of paper forms into a dynamic ode to the whirling dervishes of Turkish tradition—a meditation on rhythm, repetition, and spiritual motion.