What if the story didn’t end at the frame?
Victoria Villasana’s work does just that.
At Kinship Station, we carry framed and unframed prints by the Mexican-born, Spain-based textile artist and street art visionary who is not only an artist, but a storyteller, weaver, and cultural cartographer. Her portraits—interventions of thread on image—refuse stillness. They shimmer with incomplete beauty. They unravel just enough to remind us: we’re all unfinished. And we’re all connected.
Who Is Victoria Villasana?
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Victoria studied design and then spent over a decade in London, where she became known in the street art world for wheatpasting embroidered portraits around the city—radical soft interruptions in the hard lines of the urban landscape.
"We are constantly bombarded by street advertising, telling us that we are not good enough the way we are. I see woman falling into this tramp more often than men. We need a reminder that beauty is not only white & slim. Beauty comes in many sizes, colors a shapes and more importantly beauty comes from the inside."
Her art is rooted in curiosity and cultural hybridity. With embroidery as her language, Victoria amplifies feminine power, decolonial beauty, and collective memory. Her thread isn’t just aesthetic—it’s ancestral. And she doesn’t snip it neatly at the edge.
“Leaving the thread uncut is a reminder of change,” she says. “Of evolution. Of the rawness we carry.”
And for her, textiles are a way back:
“From the blankets our grandmothers made, to ancient weaving traditions, fabric connects us to touch, to each other, to the feminine.”
Three Ways to Meet a Victoria Villasana Print
1. For the Ritualist
Hang a print above your altar or workspace. Use it as a daily mirror to honor an archetype—The Fighter, The Healer, The Visionary. Let the yarn’s movement guide you into meditation, journaling, or ancestral remembrance.
2. For the Aesthetic Seeker
Victoria’s color stories are bold, surreal, and rule-breaking. Let a single piece ground a room. Or create a gallery wall where her thread meets your own lived design. Think of it as textile surrealism—alive with energy.
3. For the Collector
Each piece is part of a larger cultural conversation. Many portraits center changemakers, activists, or unseen figures—refugees, mothers, street vendors, luchadoras. Curate with intention. Build a visual archive of resilience, identity, and connection.
From Hedi
“What moves me most about Victoria’s work is the refusal to clean things up. She honors the unfinished, the unraveled, the real. Her thread is her truth—and it’s ours too.”
Why We Carry Her Work
Because at Kinship Station, art must do more than match the room—it must call something back. Victoria’s prints are a reminder that stories don’t end. That identity is layered. That the feminine is sacred. That street art belongs on gallery walls and in ancestral altars.
Your Turn
What stories are you weaving?
If you desire to experience Victoria Villasana’s work, contact us to explore our collection in-store or virtually.