Thursday, 21 November 2024
Textile
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'Lavandería popular / Community launderette', anonymous.
(Photo: Raihner Huhle)
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| Title of Textile: | Lavandería popular / Community launderette |
| Maker: | Anonymous |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1979 |
| Size (cm): | 49cm x 41cm |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | While demonstrating the physically hard life of the women laundry workers, this arpillera, created in the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship and acquired in 1983, also reflects on the continuity of life in the midst of chaos. Here in the routine of their daily work of scrubbing, washing and beating the dust from the clothes brought to the laundry, there is a familiarity and a kind of normality, absent and unattainable in the bigger picture.
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| Owner: | Conflict Textiles collection |
| Location: | Conflict Textiles store |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Raihner Huhle |
| Provenance: | Provenance Eyke Shannon, England. Received in March 2015 via Andy & Edwina Dunning on 30th March, 2015 (HM0724) |
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