Cuchi Taborda

About the Artist

Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Cuchi Taborda developed an early affinity for crafts, particularly for creations built with yarns and textiles. At a young age she immersed herself in the tactile world of thread and fiber—an inclination that would evolve into a distinctive artistic voice. After immigrating to the United States, she explored many art courses, but one in particular—a jewelry-making class—shifted the course of her practice. That experience led her to metals, and through her marriage to a sculptor she was introduced to new techniques and forms of metalwork. The convergence of textiles and metal became her creative axis: cotton threads weaving through aluminum, soft fibers colliding with industrial surfaces. Taborda’s work fuses the gentle discipline of weaving textiles with the bold presence of metal, creating pieces that defy easy categorization. Her installations and sculptural fiber works invite viewers into suspended worlds of texture, light and contrast—where the delicate and the durable exist side-by-side. In each piece she explores the tension and harmony between materials as disparate as cotton rope and brushed aluminum, tracing lines of connection, transformation, and presence. Today she lives and works in Florida, and her practice continues to expand in scale and ambition. Threaded with memory, material and movement, Cuchi Taborda’s work invites not just to be seen, but to be felt—its fibers echoing the pulse of craft, migration and metamorphosis.