Sacred Threshold

Bibiana Badia

April 1 – May 9, 2026

About the Exhibition

This exhibition presents a body of work where textile transcends materiality to become a language of spiritual exploration and generational dialogue. The pieces orbit around concepts of inner vision, origin, and healing. Sculptural eyes with embroidered pupils invite expanded perception, while a rhomboid portal—framed by snail-like forms—guides toward a “cosmic egg,” a nucleus of pure potential and rebirth. At the heart of the show, a material dialogue with my mother Zulema Ruiz’s drawing transforms embroidery into a meditative act of heritage. Together, these works weave an intimate geography that maps the journey from inherited memory toward reconstructed inner vision.

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Learn more about the class Bibiana Badia is teaching on May 2: Sacred Thresholds: Weaving Ritual Spaces with Bibiana Badia

Artist’s Statement

BIBIANA BADIA (Tijuana, b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves sculpture, painting, and embroidery in an alchemical search for the sacred in the everyday. Her work emerges from an intimate conversation with natural cycles and human connections that reveal themselves as a bridge between the tangible and the ineffable. Working with materials that hold memory—exotic woods, stones, and silk threads that attest to the slow gesture—Badia develops a visual language where organic forms are transfigured into archetypes, embroideries trace constellations of encounters, and brushstrokes breathe like visual mantras.

Her creative process is ceremonial: each piece is born from contemplation, from the study of ancestral symbols, and attentive listening to the materials. Between exhibitions and collaborative projects, her artistic practice has become a testament to that spiritual quest that reconciles art with the sacred. She is currently exploring the creation of ritual spaces where work and viewer coexist in a transformative experience.

About the Artist