The exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, at the Barbican Centre in London, features several works by Feliciano Centurión.

Centurion's embroideries add to the exhibition, which looks at how textile art has served as a messenger to marginalized individuals across contexts and time.

In a review published by The Guardian, Adrian Searle writes that "Throughout Unravel there are moments when I am stilled, touched and moved by the intimacies the works record. Sewing and embroidering and beading and weaving and the quiet focus that goes into the work’s completion often beg for our own proximity and attendance to the small details. [...] Feliciano Centurión’s embroidered mixes of text and image look like samplers. “I am a soul in pain,” he wrote in one. “Estoy vivo!”(“I am alive!”) in another. The words arise amid blooming flowers."

On view through May 26.

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