Event Details
'Hilvanando la busqueda/Stitching the search' by Nicole Drouilly. The showcase contains documentation about her disappeared sister Jaqueline Drouilly. (Photo: Museo de la Paz de Gernika) |
| Exhibition and associated activities: | COSIENDO PAZ: Conflicto, Arpilleras, Memoria / STITCHING PEACE: Conflict, Arpilleras, Memory |
| Description: | This exhibition of arpilleras and other textiles is hosted by three Basque Country organisations: Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika, La Fundación Boinas La Encartada Kultur Ingurunea Balmaseda, and La Casa de la Paz y los Derechos Humanos de Aiete, Donostia.
This exhibition will be complemented with a number of associated activities.
In April 2016, the exhibition will be moved to La Casa de la Paz y los Derechos Humanos de Aiete, Donostia/ San Sebastian, coinciding with their European city of culture activities.
Museo de la Paz de Gernika
Derechos Humanos de Aiete, Donostia
Giza Eskubideak, Donostia
Museo La Encartada
Museo de la Paz - youtube
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| Commissioned by: | Three Basque Country organisations |
| Date(s): | 8th October 2015 - 4th April 2016 |
| Venue: | Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika, Basque Country / Spain
Foru Plaza 1. 48300 Gernika-Lumo (Bizkaia), Basque Country / Spain |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic, curator; Breege Doherty, assistant curator |
| Facilitator: | Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika |
| Outcome: | A comprehensive programme of associated activities has been put in place connected to this exhibition.
1)A major component of the programme is the hosting of an International Arpilleras Forum in three locations - Bilbao, Donostia, Gernika - 25th to 28th February 2016, (see link below - Programme-Arpilleras Forum [English/French]).
2)A more local element of the programme involves a group of local women meeting weekly in a structured workshop to make arpilleras, (see links below - Gernika - arpilleras workshop programme; and Gernika - Programme of activities).
This has culminated in the creation of an arpillera, which depicts how the Urdaibai siglos region in the Basque Country, prosperous in the 20th century, has become a dormitory region in the 21st century as people have to work elsewhere:
Urdaibai siglos XX-XXI
Arpillera de Gernika, País Vasco, Grupo de mujeres, Museo de la Paz de Gernika, 2016, Facilitado por Idoia Orbe
Foto Idoia Orbe
(see link below - Exhibition outcome - Urdaibai siglos XX-XXI)
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