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