Thursday, 21 November 2024
Textile
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'Cacerolazo / Women banging their pots', by Felicia. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Title of Textile: | Cacerolazo / Women banging their pots |
| Maker: | Felicia |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1988 |
| Size (cm): | 50cm (w) x 38cm (l) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | In this arpillera, we see a group of women in the streets, resolute and defiant, banging their pots with sticks. They are publicly denouncing the impoverishment they are forced to endure as a result of the economic policies of the Pinochet regime. Their cooking pots have now become implements of protest. We can assume that there is little food to cook in these pots.
Agosín details the impact of the economic and political policies of the Pinochet regime when she states: “They produced the conditions for economic growth on the backs of the underprivileged…poor women … were the main victims …Thousands of them became the only providers in their homes, as their husbands, fathers and sons disappeared …..” (Agosín, 2008)
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| Owner: | Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan |
| Location: | Conflict Textiles store |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Martin Melaugh |
| Provenance: | On loan from owner. (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
RETAZOS TESTIMONIALES: arpilleras de Chile y otras latitudes, 28/09/2013 - 10/11/2013
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
Stitched Voices / Lleisiau wedi eu Pwytho, 25/03/2017 - 13/05/2017
Stitched Voices: Knowing conflict through textiles, 17/11/2017 - 20/12/2017
Stitched Voices - textila berättelse om politisk våld och motstånd , 29/08/2018 - 21/04/2019
Stitching Memory: Commemorating 50 years of solidarity in Scotland, 20/05/2024 - 31/05/2024
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