These “soft sculptures,” as critics called them at the time, given their use of textiles and tapestry, characterize Palau’s volumetric oeuvre of the 1970s and distinguish her from the reigning trends in Mexican sculpture, which strived for geometric monumentality.


MARTA PALAU (1934)
Ilerda V, 1973
Spanish jute, high-warp cotton
Acquisition, 2005