Friday, 29 March 2024

Textile Details

'Corte de agua/ Water cut', Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
'Corte de agua/ Water cut', Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)

 

Title of Textile:Corte de agua / Water cut
Maker: Anonymous
Country of Origin: Chile
Year Produced: 1980c
Size (cm): 44cm (w) x 34cm (l)
Materials: Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap
Type of Textile: Arpillera
Description:

This arpillera returns to the traditional style with the depiction of mountains and a flaming red sun. The poor people depicted here have had their water supply cut off by the government in order to bully them into stopping their anti-government protests.

The vibrant colours mirror the courage and resilience of these women, who, undaunted, carried buckets to their middle-class neighbours and asked them for water. The water tanks are visible in the bottom right hand corner, which the women filled that day in order to journey back to their communities victoriously bearing water.

The arpillera typifies the creativity and sheer determination of these women, working collectively, to provide a basic need for their families and communities, a need denied to them by the dictatorship. In the words of Marjorie Agosín (2008): “They participated in all kinds of demonstrations against the dictatorship”

Owner: Conflict Textiles collection
Location: Conflict Textiles store
Original / Replica: Original
Photographer: Martin Melaugh
Provenance: Traude Rebman, Germany.



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
Threads of Life: Quilts and arpilleras that speak out, 16/10/2009 - 1/11/2009
Arpilleras: Voices on Tapestries, 8/03/2010 - 31/03/2010
Arpilleras: Embajadoras para el Bicentenario Quilts/Arpilleras: Ambassadors for the B, 14/04/2010 - 20/05/2010
Exhibit of Chilean Arpilleras, 20/05/2010 - 22/05/2010
The Politics of the Mundane in Chilean and Other Arpilleras, 27/08/2010 - 29/08/2010
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
Arpilleras Poéticas y recital del poeta chileno Jaime Huenún, 10/11/2012 - 15/12/2012
RETAZOS TESTIMONIALES: arpilleras de Chile y otras latitudes, 28/09/2013 - 10/11/2013
Arpillera Journeys, 6/03/2015 - 12/06/2015
Stitching Memoryscape 「記憶風景を縫う」, 30/05/2017 - 12/06/2017
Stitching Memoryscape 「記憶風景を縫う」, 1/07/2017 - 9/07/2017
Stitching Memoryscape 「記憶風景を縫う」, 29/08/2017 - 3/09/2017
Tkanine otpora: glasovi žena / Textiles of Resistance: Women's Voices , 14/09/2019 - 30/09/2019
Conflict Textiles arpillera workshop with Level 2 Spanish students, QUB, 1/11/2023 - 1/11/2023
طبعة الطبيعة | Nature Footprints: Community Stories of Climate, Conflict, and Peace, 30/11/2023 - 12/12/2023



Textile Detail Image(s)

  'Corte de agua/ Water cut' - Detail 1, Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)  'Corte de agua/ Water cut' - Detail 2, Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)