I explore the encounter between the ancestral and the expressions of our time.
**Ana Davids** (Salta, Argentina, February 18, 1989) is a lawyer and textile and mixed-media artist. Working under the name **Ana Davids – Umbral**, she develops a contemporary artistic practice that explores the relationship between memory, territory, and identity through the use of natural fibers and organic materials. Her work draws inspiration from Andean culture and the ancestral knowledge of the Indigenous peoples of northwestern Argentina and Latin America.
She works with llama wool, sheep's wool, jute, chaguar fiber, corn husks, leather, wood, metals, and other materials sourced from local artisan communities and the surrounding environment. Using these materials, she creates sculptural works that reinterpret traditional textile techniques through a personal and contemporary perspective.
Each work emerges from a process of historical and visual research into ancestral symbols, ornaments, and garments. Some of her pieces reinterpret techniques and formats developed in other regions of Latin America, conceptually reimagined within her own distinctive artistic language.