Peruvian-Canadian duo (Enrique Torres Takahashi + Maria Beaumaster) form Studio der Luminaire, a textile-based art practice in Den Haag. Their work is rooted in themes of sustainability, material accessibility, and global culture, and they create work that invites a harmonious coexistence with contemporary life—a daily communion with well-being, pleasure, and interaction. Their visual language draws from the tension between irregular and refined aesthetics, marrying fuzziness with a distinctly primordial modernity that is at once tactile, emotional, and socially resonant.
There is no corner of the planet without polluted water or rain. In the Peruvian jungle, an endless cycle seeps into every aspect of life: heavy metal pollution, the destruction of ecosystems, the poisoning of native communities. Metals from the mines seep into the rivers and then rain down thousands of kilometres away. Yakumama (2025) is a metaphor for the rhythms of pollution. Every time it rains, our pollution washes over us, but it always returns in its beautiful aquatic form.
A second, blank, tapestry will be an invitation for the visitors of the exhibition to collaborate on the theme together. What does this tapestry look like in a country with an excess of both the physical resource (wool) and the metaphorical Yakumama, the mother of water?