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'Movimiento contra la tortura / Movement against torture', Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Title of Textile: | Movimiento contra la tortura / Movement against torture |
| Maker: | Anonymous |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 1989 |
| Size (cm): | 48cm x 38cm |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | Here we see a group of people from the Movement Against Torture Sebastián Acevedo (MCTSA) demanding “Punishment to the torturers.” The anti torture movement came into being in September 1983. Two months later, Sebastián Acevedo Becerra, after the arrest of his two children, whom he feared would be tortured, publicly set himself alight. Following his tragic death, the Movement Against Torture added his name to their group to highlight and honour his sacrifice.
In the Chilean National Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, death as a consequence of political violence was how Sebastiáns’ demise was described. Roberta notes that his death: “gave a public acknowledgement of the desperate situation people lived during those years and gave his family the right to reparations.”
(Bacic, 2012) Stitching together nonviolence and “Movement Against Torture, Sebastián Acevedo (MCTSA)”.
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| Owner: | Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan |
| Location: | Oshima Hakko Museum, Japan |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Martin Melaugh |
| Provenance: | 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: |
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 - textila berättelse om politisk våld och motstånd , 29/08/2018 - 21/04/2019
The Art of the Banner, 9/02/2021 - 23/02/2021
Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st Century, 24/03/2021 - 31/12/2021
Conversatorio: Tejiendo Resistencia Antimilitarista y Noviolenta a la Guerra, 7/10/2021 - 7/10/2021
Human Rights through textile language: The Oxford Human Rights Festival , 11/03/2022 - 20/03/2022
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