Nayeli Vega
Modopactua was born in Mexico City in 2011 as a group of 5 designers, artists and architects to fuse crafts, art and design with upcycling techniques, aiming to direct attention to sustainability and other social issues. Modopactua reuses textile materials to produce meaningful objects while at the same time connecting communities in the city and by doing so, deconstructing stereotypes.
Modopactua offers collective, collaborative and participative activities and serves as a meeting point for many other initiatives in Mexico City.
The collective was founded by Nayeli Vega, Yareth Silva, Gabriela Sisniega, Claudia Wondratschke, Yupanqui Ramos, Karla Amezcua and collaborations with fashion designer Kellen Mensing.
Embroidered map of “Colonia Guerrero” .This map is a collection of spaces dedicated to identify handcrafts services in the neighborghood, like shoe repairing,sewing and repairing clothes. These services are in extinction due to a society that consumes more and more fast fashion.
Upcycled bags for Goethe Institut México made with material obtained at Mercado de la Merced in Mexico City. A project by Kellen Mensing and Nayeli Vega.
Modopactua worked with upcycling techniques, like weaving, knitting and knotting. We also used natural dyes, embroidering and printing as crafting techniques, but also, combined with techniques such as cartography and mapping, as a metaphor for emotional relations, personal experiences and social processes such as gentrification and migration within the city’s communities and neighborhoods.
Modopactua organized textiles and crafts workshops that sought to focus on issues of feminism and sustainability, the history of the textile industry, traditional textile techniques and upcycling. The aim was not only to create products, but to discuss the high rate of consumption of textiles and fast fashion, their negative impact on the environment and the labor exploitation fostered by this economic model.