These new works by Ángel Pahuamba add to the originality that has characterized his entire plastic production. What distinguishes several of these pieces is the incorporation of embroidery on the pictorial surface and as part of the image. These fragments were produced by different artists from the Cherán community who are dedicated to this practice, mainly cross stitch. This kind of collaboration is part of a methodology that Pahuamba has been investigating, from different media and platforms, for the last four years and that is based on the dialogue between the plastic arts and the more traditional arts, commonly referred to as popular art or crafts. Through his works, the artist seeks a new relationship between these two material registers, placing them on the same plane, as well as underlining the vitality of collective or community creative activity.

An embroidered set of mushrooms, a butterfly, or a bird appear in some of his paintings. In these three elements, it is possible to appreciate how the embroidering artists interpreted the plastic work of Pahuamba, their works are consonant with their proposal. In other paintings, the artist uses more traditional community-produced embroidery, such as the butterflies that appear on two female portraits. In one of these works, the embroideries are added to make up the clothing worn by a woman while, in the other piece, the butterflies serve to frame the image of an embroiderer in full action. These two works can be seen as an explicit tribute to the women of the community who have kept this practice alive over time and thus preserving its symbolic language. It is worth mentioning that the presence of these motifs from the natural world, as in previous works by Pahuamba, seeks to point to a new relationship of individuals with the environment and the multiplicity of its living beings.

In addition to the two-dimensional works in cloth with embroidery and on amate paper, Pahuamba also presents two sculptural installations in this exhibition. One has an olotera as its main element and the second refers to the fungi kingdom. For the realization of the second piece, he collaborated with another artist from the community dedicated to wood carving and toy manufacturing – another of Cherán's traditional artistic practices. Both the motif of the corn cob and that of the mushrooms may have resonances with issues associated with the collective. The union of the different elements that make up an olotera guarantees a solid and effective surface for shelling corn. The domain of fungi, on the other hand, has a vegetative part known as mycelium, a network of interconnected filaments that unites and regulates the well-being of the planet's forest mass. As in his pedagogical work, these installations in Pahuamba propose a new perception of the everyday context, with its material objects and natural elements, which allows them to be nourished with symbolic meanings.

Daniel Garza Usabiaga