Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Textile Details

'Lavandería popular / Community launderette', anonymous.
(Photo: Raihner Huhle)
'Lavandería popular / Community launderette', anonymous. (Photo: Raihner Huhle)

 

Title of Textile:Lavandería popular / Community launderette
Maker: Anonymous
Country of Origin: Chile
Year Produced: 1979
Size (cm): 49cm x 41cm
Materials: Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap
Type of Textile: Arpillera
Description:

While demonstrating the physically hard life of the women laundry workers, this arpillera, created in the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship and acquired in 1983, also reflects on the continuity of life in the midst of chaos. Here in the routine of their daily work of scrubbing, washing and beating the dust from the clothes brought to the laundry, there is a familiarity and a kind of normality, absent and unattainable in the bigger picture.

Owner: Conflict Textiles collection
Location: Conflict Textiles store
Original / Replica: Original
Photographer: Raihner Huhle
Provenance: Provenance Eyke Shannon, England. Received in March 2015 via Andy & Edwina Dunning on 30th March, 2015.





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