TEQUITQUi collection
Tequitqui draws its main inspiration from the artistic manifestation of the same name that bloomed in Colonial Mexico. Tequitqui art prompted a perennial syncretism between Pre-hispanic iconography and Christian art, an esthetic collision spontaneously roused when Spanish friars entrusted their indigenous pupils with the task of building the first Christian sanctuaries. Guided by their own visual codes, the native builders delivered constructions of “inadequate” dimensions that daintily showed the symbolism and motifs of Pre-hispanic worldview.
Using this concept as a parting point, the collection conveys a vast landscape of Mexico’s cultural legacy, interweaving Pre-hispanic glory and its continuity through Tequitqui art. Balance, a re-encounter with nature, and time’s manifold faces —its progression along with its ceaselessness— are the constituent themes of Tequitqui’s pieces.
