Cientocincuenta millones arboles
2023
Bordado a mano sobre lino teñido con semillas de achiote · 37.5 × 37.5 × 4.5 cm
Cientocincuenta millones arboles (A Hundred and Fifty Million Trees) is a panel from Paula Osorio's series Cadenas invisibles (Invisible Chains). On her website Osorio describes the series as made with slow, artisanal methods to set it against industrial production, and its embroidered texts as figures on the most sensitive and urgent issues in the fashion industry's statistics.
The figure on this panel appears in an Instagram post of hers from August 2024 about her installation La complicidad la llevamos puesta (We Wear the Complicity), where she wrote that more than 150 million trees are cut down every year for cellulose-based textiles, adding: "El 30% son bosques virgenes" (30% are virgin forests).
Cienmillones niños (A Hundred Million Children) is another panel from the series.
Shown
- 2023Feria del Millón, Bogotá
- 2025Voces de la Naturaleza, Cinco Sentidos