Genesis Moreno is a Miami-based textile artist whose practice centers on quilting as a medium to explore themes of trauma, mental health, and obsessions. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Statement:                                                                                                                                                                A quilt consists of three layers that are stitched together with a decorative pattern. It is meant to comfort and warm you while you sleep, but the construction of a quilt starts long before it is sewn together. It begins as someone's beloved dress or lover’s bedsheets, textiles surviving years of care and storage. 

My quilts are made from these discarded textiles, unwashed, they smell of their previous owner. Their unknown histories combined with my own serve as a collective consciousness of shared trauma and anxieties. Digitally printed images on these textiles merge modern day emptiness with a longing for deeper meaning. The use of emotionally charged stitching serves as prayer-like confessions with hidden messages embedded in the scribbles. 

Through a feminist lens, I create textile work to subvert the idea that craft and “women’s work” is intended only to comfort and decorate, but to confront the viewer with honest vulnerability and curiosity.