| Description: | This Peruvian arpillera is a contemporary replica of one made in 1985 in the workshops of the Mujeres Creativas group, made up of women displaced from the Andes during the Peruvian conflict, who came to live in the poor neighbourhoods of Lima.
During the 1980s and 1990s, as a result of armed conflict between the government, self defence groups and insurgent forces of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Resistance Movement, over 600,000 people were displaced within Peru.
Reflecting issues of concerns for women throughout Peru, this piece is an imaginative slant on the traditional style of the Chilean arpillera, which inspired the Peruvian arpilleristas.
The tongue-in-cheek title of this arpillera highlights and questions the woman's daily grind as being anything but sweet as she toils through the shopping, cleaning and cooking, and worries whether there will ever be enough money. At the centre of the piece, she is seen serving her husband, as is her duty as a Peruvian wife. While representing important issues for women in Peru and worldwide, it is done with humour and irony. In essence, the women depicted in this arpillera resiliently bear the burden of Peruvian economic policies in the 1980s - policies which negatively impacted their daily lives.
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