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'Lucía, Lucía, la olla está vacía / The pots are empty', Anonymous. (Photo: Colin Peck)
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| Title of Textile: | Lucía, Lucía, la olla está vacía / Lucia, Lucia, The pots are empty |
| Maker: | Anonymous, Vicariate of Solidarity workshop |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1980c |
| Size (cm): | 46 cm (w) x 38 cm (l) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | As with several arpilleras from the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship, this piece brings us face to face with the daily poverty experienced by so many people, as a result of the harsh economic policies of General Pinochet. One response of local people was to set up soup kitchens: "We fight hunger by the way of organizing a community soup kitchen." (testimony received from a community organization in Santiago de Chile in 1983).
On many occasions, women, men and children banged empty pots with wooden spoons following a well known rhythm and singing a song addressed to Lucia Pinochet, wife of General Pinochet: "Lucía, Lucía, la olla está vacía."
This slogan, born from their daily experience of hunger in the shantytowns, was echoed during the widespread protests organized against the dictatorship between 1978 and 1990.
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| Owner: | Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Marjorie Agosín |
| Location: | Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc (Badalona) |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Colin Peck |
| Provenance: | Donation from Marjorie Agosín, Chile/USA (2012) (HM0724) |
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