Claudia Alarcón (b. 1989, Argentina) is an Indigenous textile artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people in northern Salta, Argentina. Salta, tucked into the foothills of the Andes, creates a meaningful resonance with Yanantin’s own story, as each of our pieces is handcrafted by master goldsmiths in the Peruvian Andes. 

Alarcón’s artistic practice takes collective form through Silät, which she leads and which was formed in 2023, bringing together one hundred women weavers from different generations across the Alto la Sierra and La Puntana Wichí communities. Silät is the collective expression of Alarcón’s artistic practice, shaped through the shared knowledge, techniques and visual language of the Wichí women with whom she works.

Alarcón has received significant recognition for her work. In 2022, she became the first Indigenous woman to receive a prize at Argentina’s National Salon of Visual Arts, and that same year was awarded the Ama Amoedo Acquisition Prize at Pinta Miami. In 2025, Claudia Alarcón & Silät were named Emerging Artist of the Year by ARTnews. Most recently, they presented Living, Weaving, their first solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Laura Cosendey, the exhibition brought together 25 works.