Textile
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'Exilio de los Republicanos cruzando los Pirineos/ Exile of the Republicans crossing the Pyrenees', by Arpilleristas Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc. (Photo: Roser Corbera)
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| Title of Textile: | Exilio de los Republicanos cruzando los Pirineos / Exile of the Republicans crossing the Pyrenees |
| Maker: | Arpilleristas Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc |
| Country of Origin: | Catalonia |
| Year Produced: | 2012 |
| Size (cm): | 49cm x 42cm |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | This piece was created by women who had previously in 2009 related their memories of the Spanish Civil War through individual arpilleras. Here they depict the collective Catalonian memory of this group regarding the experience of crossing the Pyrenees into France. On this journey into exile they endured terrible hardships and perilous conditions as they made their way through this mountainous terrain, a journey which not all survived. |
| Owner: | Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc collection |
| Location: | Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc, Catalonia |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Roser Corbera |
| Provenance: | Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc arpillera programme. |
| Textile exhibited at: |
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
Women 31 , 7/03/2014 - 15/04/2014
Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 17/11/2014 - 18/11/2014
Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 6/02/2015 - 7/03/2015
COSIENDO PAZ: Conflicto, Arpilleras, Memoria , 26/03/2015 - 30/09/2015
COSIENDO PAZ: Conflicto, Arpilleras, Memoria, 8/10/2015 - 4/04/2016
COSIENDO PAZ: Conflicto, Arpilleras, Memoria , 13/04/2016 - 12/06/2016
Arpilerak: Memoriaren Haritik Etorkizuna Josten / Arpilleras: Al Hilo De La Memoria, 12/04/2018 - 24/04/2018
Conflict, Famine and Displacement: Then and Now, 13/06/2020 - 27/06/2020
Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st Century, 24/03/2021 - 31/12/2021
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