Thursday, 21 November 2024
Event Details
'Tenemos que vivir bajo llaves / We have to live behind closed doors'. Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh) |
| Exhibition and associated activities: | Arpilleras / Quilts that cry out, challenge and question / Arpilleras que claman desafían e interpelan |
| Description: | This exhibition was curated by Roberta Bacic for the Club de Madrid's First Global Forum on Leadership for Shared Societies: building a world safe for difference.
Here we are given an insight into the challenges as expressed by the unmediated voices of ordinary people and stitched together by women from different countries using the media of arpilleras/quilts.
Web links: Club de Madrid
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| Commissioned by: | Club de Madrid First Global forum on Leadership for Shared Societies |
| Date(s): | 12th November 2008 - 14th November 2008 |
| Venue: | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Club de Madrid |
| Outcome: | Overall, the exhibition introduced attendees to a broad range of human rights abuses, historical and current, through the medium of textile, particularly arpilleras. |
| Documents: |
• Exhibition catalogue, Nov 2008 - view
• Exhibition notice, Nov 2008 - view
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