“During my week in Mothership, I hoped to complete the design of a fassi font to use to embroider the names of the people that I believe have some responsibility for bringing Fez embroidery to a small town in Toledo, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Looking at the books published by Fatima Alaoui in the 1960's I tried to incorporate the typical stitches used in fessi embroidery into the letters. Each trip to Tanger also allows me to walk and search for what the city tells of those who lived there. For example, in the old mountain area of Mothership there used to live one of the first persons commissioned to bring back Moroccan objects for an ethnographic collection, amongst them many embroideries. He was an entomologist who first travelled to Morocco in 1905, in 1914 he published a book on Moroccan beetles that includes almost 3000 species and now he is buried in the European cemetery not far from Mothership. I hoped as well to learn about embroidery techniques  and materials that I still don't understand. “

Patricia Esquivias's work addresses neglected issues related to our history and society in a very personal way. Imitating the work of an ethnographer, the artist conducts her research by interviewing people from diverse backgrounds, reviewing archives, and taking walks. The narratives she creates from this process, with irony and without pretense of accuracy, invite viewers to reread history. Patricia Esquivias was born in 1979 in Caracas, Venezuela. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions, including at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008); The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (both 2009); and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece (2015). Esquivias currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.