Thursday, 21 November 2024
Event Details
'La cueca sola / Dancing cueca alone', by Aurora Ortiz.
(Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Permanent exhibition: | La cueca sola / Dancing cueca alone |
| Description: | La cueca sola, by Chilean arpillerista Aurora Ortiz, was at the centre of the Conflict Textiles exhibition Arpilleras Bordando à Resistência / Arpilleras Embroidering Resistance on display at Tiradentes Reception Hall, located in the complex of Latin America’s Memorial of Sao Paulo, September/October 2015. It was donated to this venue following the exhibition
The Latin America Memorial (in Portuguese, Memorial da América Latina) is a cultural, political and leisure complex, inaugurated in 1989, in São Paulo, Brazil. The architectural setting, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is a monument to the cultural, political, social and economic integration of Latin America, spanning an area of 84,482 square meters. Its cultural project was developed by Brazilian anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro. It is a public foundation, financially and administratively autonomous, maintained by the state government.
Web links:
Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo (Brasil) / Latin America Memorial,Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Pavilhão da Criatividade Darcy Ribeiro /Creative Exhibition Hall Darcy Ribeiro |
| Commissioned by: | n/a |
| Date(s): | 1st April 2016 - 15th November 2022 |
| Venue: | Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brasil
Av. Auro Soares de Moura Andrade, 664 - Barra Funda, São Paulo - SP, 01156-001, Brazil |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Lais Camile Camargo & Esther Vital |
| Outcome: | An arpillera from Conflict Textiles becomes part of other international collections that promote Latin American culture; in this case specifically via this arpillera that represents Chile in this prestigious venue. |
| Documents: |
• Permanent exhibition - La cueca sola - view
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