Textile
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'Vida en Nuestra Población / Life in Our Poor Neighbourhood' by Taller Recoleta (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Title of Textile: | Vida en Nuestra Población / Life in Our Poor Neighbourhood |
| Maker: | Taller Recoleta |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1982 |
| Size (cm): | 185cm (w) x 115cm (l) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | Created in the second half of the dictatorship, this arpillera portrays daily life in this bustling community. Though the people are still poor and can only source electricity by tapping into the main power supply, they are celebrating all the comings and goings of life. We see a wedding, a rodeo, children at play, a woman crying in front of her house, women undertaking household chores, baking empanadas in the park, gardening and people cultivating their food crops; all part of the fabric of life in this community, journeying forward with hope.
Since its creation, this arpillera has traversed continents; from Chile to Germany, then to Northern Ireland, for exhibition in The Politics of Chilean Arpilleras, a forerunner to the extensive exhibition The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts launched on International Women’s Day 2008. Since then it has inspired and challenged viewers in Brazil, Japan and Argentine. It revisited Derry in 2015 for Arpillera Journeys, marking another stage in its epic global journey. |
| Owner: | Conflict Textiles collection |
| Location: | c/o Karen Logan, Senior curator, Ulster Museum, Belfast |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Martin Melaugh, details by Colin Peck |
| Provenance: | Gift to curator Roberta Bacic from Marta and Jürgen Schaffer, Germany (2008). (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
The Politics of Chilean Arpilleras, 8/02/2008 - 19/04/2008
Chilean Arpilleras , 11/09/2008 - 11/10/2008
The Politics of Chilean Arpilleras, 23/09/2008 - 23/09/2008
Arpilleras that Cry Out, 22/06/2009 - 10/07/2009
Finding Our Voices -The Power of Arpilleras, 26/09/2009 - 30/10/2009
Arpilleras habitades de memòria, 14/01/2010 - 26/02/2010
'Arpilleras Aus Chile' -Eine Retrospektive, 6/05/2010 - 28/05/2010
Chilean Arpilleras of Yesterday and Today: Textile Ambassadors, 16/09/2010 - 16/09/2010
Stitching Resistance, 12/10/2010 - 16/01/2011
Arpilleras e resistência política no Chile , 30/07/2011 - 30/10/2011
Arpilleras of Chilean political resistance , 22/03/2012 - 5/06/2012
RETAZOS TESTIMONIALES: arpilleras de Chile y otras latitudes, 28/09/2013 - 10/11/2013
Arpillera Journeys, 6/03/2015 - 12/06/2015
Embracing Human Rights, 5/11/2019 - 18/12/2019
Embracing Human Rights: Conflict Textiles’ Journey, 9/01/2020 - 31/07/2020
Encuentro Arpillera / Arpillera Colloquium / Gesprächsabend zum Thema Arpilleras, 14/04/2021 - 14/04/2021
Shirts, Singers and Sewing, 24/05/2021 - 31/08/2021
Con-textualizando la memoria / Contextualising memory, 4/09/2021 - 8/09/2021
Making an arpillera doll from shirt factory fabric scraps, 16/09/2021 - 16/09/2021
Derry Dolls: Present to Past, 9/11/2021 - 26/04/2022
Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey, 21/06/2024 - 27/04/2025
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