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'Arpillera: Bienvenida a las personas refugiadas - Identificándose con ellas / Welcome Refugees - Identifying with them', by participants at the International Arpillera's Forum, Gernika, Basque Country 2016. (Photo: Idoia Orbe)
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| Title of Textile: | Bienvenida a las personas refugiadas - Identificándose con ellas / Welcome Refugees - Identifying with them |
| Maker: | Participants at the International Arpillera's Forum, Gernika, 2016 |
| Country of Origin: | Basque Country |
| Year Produced: | 2016 |
| Size (cm): | 57cm (w) x 70cm (h) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | This collective piece was made during a workshop which was part of the International Arpillera's Forum, 2016. Participants had a choice of two workshops, this one titled “Identifying with refugees”. As participants came from many different countries, textile was the common language. Somehow, the women transcended language barriers and created this arpillera, welcoming refugees. Foremost in their minds was the memory of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on 2nd September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea, en route to Europe with his family.
Here we see a diverse group of people on the shore welcoming the newcomers. This conveys the image of Gernika as a place where people of diverse cultures and backgrounds live together.
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| Owner: | Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika, Basque country / Spain |
| Location: | Conflict Textiles store |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Idoia Orbe |
| Provenance: | On loan from owner, produced collectively by participants at the "Forum Internacional de Arpilleras / Arpilleras International Forum", (2016). (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
Arpilerak: Memoriaren Haritik Etorkizuna Josten / Arpilleras: Al Hilo De La Memoria, 12/04/2018 - 24/04/2018
ARIPILLERAS: AL HILO DE LA MEMORIA, TEJIENDO FUTURO / Arpilleras: Knitting the Future, 25/04/2018 - 30/05/2018
Conflict, Famine and Displacement: Then and Now, 13/06/2020 - 27/06/2020
WE CANNOT WALK ALONE – Refugee week 2021 , 5/05/2021 - 21/06/2021
Con-textualizando la memoria / Contextualising memory, 4/09/2021 - 8/09/2021
Suitcases: Telling Textile Travels /Maletas: Contando Viajes Textiles, 1/10/2021 - 7/11/2021
Conflict Textiles collection: Magee Campus Library, Ulster University, 4/11/2021 - 10/12/2021
Outbound ticket / Boleto de ida, 25/04/2022 - 14/09/2022
Mujeres Disruptivas / Disruptive women unveiling: Refugee week 2023, 20/06/2023 - 20/06/2023
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