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amayadeyavorsky@yahoo.fr
@amayady
AMAYA DE YAVORSKY
Designer and researcher working at the intersection of textiles, storytelling, and cultural preservation. Rooted in hands-on fieldwork, my practice blends photography, material experimentation, and anthropological inquiry to explore and preserve textile traditions.
EDUCATION
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
BA Design
2021-2026
Instituto Europeo de Diseño (IED) Barcelona, Spain
BA Fashion Design with Westminster
Full ride 3 years merit scholarship
2020-2021
Fabricademy, Barcelona, Spain
Transdisciplianry course at the intersection between textiles, digital fabrication and biology
2019-2020
BIOGRAPHY
I am a French-Venezuelan designer and researcher based in Barcelona, currently in my final year of Bachelor at Design Academy Eindhoven. My practice explores the intersections of craft and cultural memory, often through direct collaboration with artisans and communities across Latin America and Asia.Growing up in a multicultural family, born in London and having lived in seven countries during my childhood, I have traveled extensively throughout my life, thanks to my mother’s career in aviation. This constant movement and exposure to diverse cultures have deeply shaped my perspective as a designer and fostered a profound respect for craft traditions. My interest in visual storytelling began early, influenced by my father, a photographer, and my mother, a fashion designer.In recent years, I’ve conducted hands-on research with artisans in Chile, Thailand, Laos, and Uzbekistan. Through photography and visual storytelling, I document endangered textile practices within their broader cultural and environmental contexts.I approach research and creation as intertwined processes, rooted in slowness, listening, and mutual respect. My current projects focus on ancestral dyeing and weaving techniques, emphasizing land-based knowledge and oral transmission. I use design as a lens to amplify local voices and preserve craft lineages at risk of being forgotten.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a French-Venezuelan designer and researcher based in Barcelona, currently in my final year of Bachelor at Design Academy Eindhoven. My practice explores the intersections of craft and cultural memory, often through direct collaboration with artisans and communities across Latin America and Asia.Growing up in a multicultural family, born in London and having lived in seven countries during my childhood, I have traveled extensively throughout my life, thanks to my mother’s career in aviation. This constant movement and exposure to diverse cultures have deeply shaped my perspective as a designer and fostered a profound respect for craft traditions. My interest in visual storytelling began early, influenced by my father, a photographer, and my mother, a fashion designer.In recent years, I’ve conducted hands-on research with artisans in Chile, Thailand, Laos, and Uzbekistan. Through photography and visual storytelling, I document endangered textile practices within their broader cultural and environmental contexts.I approach research and creation as intertwined processes, rooted in slowness, listening, and mutual respect. My current projects focus on ancestral dyeing and weaving techniques, emphasizing land-based knowledge and oral transmission. I use design as a lens to amplify local voices and preserve craft lineages at risk of being forgotten.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I work with textiles as a way to explore memory, material culture, and ancestral knowledge. For me, weaving, dyeing, and making are not just techniques, they are languages that carry histories, identities, and relationships between people and land. Rooted in hands-on learning, I immerse myself in the places where traditions originate, engaging directly with the materials, environments, and communities that sustain them.
Raised between cultures and countries, I see borders as fluid. Thanks to my mother’s work in aviation, I’ve been traveling my whole life. This constant movement shaped my way of seeing: I’ve never felt tied to one place, but instead developed a deep sensitivity to cultural diversity and nuance. My mother, a fashion designer passionate about traditional textiles, and my father, a photographer, both profoundly influenced my path. From an early age, I was surrounded by fabric, cameras, and stories, seeds that continue to grow in my work today.
Photography is an essential part of my process. It allows me to slow down, to notice what is often overlooked, and to create space for others’ stories to emerge. I don’t use it as a passive documentation tool, but as a form of presence, focusing on gestures, textures, and rhythms that reveal deeper narratives.
My research sits at the intersection of art, design, and anthropology. I am not an observer from the outside, but a learner, guided by curiosity, care, and respect. For me, textile traditions are not relics of the past, but active, adaptable practices that continue to hold meaning in the present.
In a world of increasing standardization and disconnection, I seek out the fragile, the handmade, the land-based, and the intimate, where meaning is spun, dyed, and woven into every thread.