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Waddington Custot is delighted to present the gallery’s first show of Kenia Almaraz Murillo (b. 1994, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) after announcing global representation of the artist earlier this year. Rich in cultural reference and personal history, Kenia’s distinctive work explores familial legacies, Andean mythologies, and diasporic identity. Taught weaving in Paris by the nonagenarian textile artist Simone Prouvé, Kenia uses her practice to connect with the generations of weavers among the women in her family in Bolivia, and her large wall-based sculptures, hand-woven from her Paris …