Textile
Details
 'Violencia en Ayacucho / Violence in Ayacucho',
by FCH Mujeres Creativas workshop.
(Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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Title of Textile: | Violencia en Ayacucho/Violence in Ayacucho |
Maker: | FCH Mujeres Creativas workshop |
Country of Origin: | Peru |
Year Produced: | 2009 |
Size (cm): | 51cm x 41cm |
Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
Description: | This piece, a replica of the 1985 original arpillera, was made by the Mujeres Creativas workshop in Lima. It takes its inspiration from a child’s drawing, portraying his memories of the military arriving in the city of Ayacucho in south-central Peru. His mother, through the Mujeres Creativas workshop, created this arpillera depicting the harshness, violence and repression of this era.
Over 600,000 people were displaced within Peru during the 1980s and 1990s as a result of an armed conflict between the government, self defence groups and insurgent forces of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Resistance Movement. In 1980, the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) used Ayachucho as its base for its campaign against the Peruvian government.
The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission estimates that over 69,000 died as a result of this violent conflict, with more than 40 percent of the reported deaths and disappearances concentrated in the Ayacucho department. http://www.cverdad.org.pe/ingles/ifinal/conclusiones.php
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Owner: | Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Rebecca Dudley, USA/ New Zealand |
Location: | Roberta Bacic, Northern Ireland |
Original / Replica: | Replica |
Photographer: | Martin Melaugh |
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Textile exhibited at: |
The Politics of the Mundane in Chilean and Other Arpilleras, 27/08/2010 - 29/08/2010 Arpilleras and the Poetry of Survival, 10/05/2011 - 9/06/2011 Arpilleras y cotidianeidad femenina, 5/10/2013 - 7/11/2013 Women 31 , 7/03/2014 - 15/04/2014 Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 17/11/2014 - 18/11/2014 Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 6/02/2015 - 7/03/2015 Arpilleras Dialogantes / Arpillera Conversations, 28/05/2015 - 28/05/2015 Overcoming, Remembering: The Politics of Sewing, 8/06/2015 - 12/06/2015 Arpilleras Bordando à Resistência / Arpilleras Embroidering Resistance, 25/09/2015 - 25/10/2015 Arpilleras de América Latina: Mujeres cosedoras de vida , 19/03/2016 - 24/04/2016 LA VIDA QUE SE TEJE Tejidos de América Latina por la memoria y la vida, 11/05/2016 - 10/07/2016 War-Torn Children, 1/03/2017 - 15/04/2017 War-Torn Children , 17/07/2017 - 28/07/2017 War-Torn Children, 2/10/2017 - 27/10/2017 War-Torn Children, 8/02/2018 - 24/03/2018 War-Torn Children, 5/09/2018 - 29/11/2018 #DerechosdelNiño / #DretsdelsInfants / #ChildrensRights, 10/11/2020 - 29/01/2021 #ChildrensRights / #DerechosdelNiño / #DretsdelsInfants , 15/03/2021 - 6/06/2021 State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence, 28/09/2022 - 23/10/2022 Arpilleras Poéticas, 7/12/2023 - 17/03/2024
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