Textile
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'Dia de Visita / Day of Visit', by Victoria Diaz Caro. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Title of Textile: | Día de Visita / Day of Visit |
| Maker: | Victoria Diaz Caro |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1988 |
| Size (cm): | 39cm x 51cm |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | In the early months of the Pinochet dictatorship up to 7,000 people were detained by the Junta. In this piece, arpillerista Victoria Diaz Caro brings us inside a Chilean prison and captures the poignancy of a political prisoner, arms outstretched, ready to greet his family on visiting day. Nearby, a couple are absorbed in their all too brief moments of connection. These vivid, life filled scenes sharply contrast with the shadowy military figures in the background, keeping a watchful eye on proceedings.
For the women coping with imprisonment of their loved ones, using their textile skills to craft arpilleras became a means of enabling them to live with conflict and its memory on a daily basis: the political events of their country and their daily lives became inseparable. |
| Owner: | Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan |
| Location: | Conflict Textiles store |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Martin Melaugh |
| Provenance: | On loan from owner. Donated to Oshima Hakko by Professor Masaaki Takahashi (2008), originally brought to Japan by The Japanese Committee for Solidarity with the People of Chile between 1988 and 1991. (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
RETAZOS TESTIMONIALES: arpilleras de Chile y otras latitudes, 28/09/2013 - 10/11/2013
Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 17/11/2014 - 18/11/2014
Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 6/02/2015 - 7/03/2015
Arpilleras Dialogantes / Arpillera Conversations, 28/05/2015 - 28/05/2015
Overcoming, Remembering: The Politics of Sewing, 8/06/2015 - 12/06/2015
Arpilleras Bordando à Resistência / Arpilleras Embroidering Resistance, 25/09/2015 - 25/10/2015
Stitched Legacies of Conflicts , 7/10/2016 - 26/11/2016
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
Huellas: puntadas y caminares de la memoria / Footprints: memory stitches and steps , 29/09/2018 - 4/11/2018
Conflict Textiles talk , 3/02/2019 - 3/02/2019
II encuentro internacional de arte textil y resistencia, 22/08/2019 - 24/08/2019
Tras las huellas de los/as desaparecidos/as , 29/08/2019 - 31/08/2019
Chile 1973 , 22/02/2020 - 22/02/2020
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