Thursday, 21 November 2024
Event Details
'Vida en Nuestra Población / Life in Our Poor Neighbourhood', Taller Recoleta. (Photo: Colin Peck)
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| Exhibition and associated activities: | Finding Our Voices -The Power of Arpilleras |
| Description: | This arpilleras in this exhibition portray stories of injustice, violence, repression, loss and trauma. Some portray outrage at the system; others speak of symbolic ways to protest, while others offer creative solutions to social problems. But all depict common themes which tap into the collective humanity of every one of us.
This exhibition is a testimony to the Women who stitched their life-affirming messages,often under life-changing and life-threatening conditions. |
| Commissioned by: | Dundalk Institute of Technology, Communities Connect |
| Date(s): | 26th September 2009 - 30th October 2009 |
| Venue: | Dundalk Institute of Technology
Dublin Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Johdi Quinn |
| Outcome: | Locating this exhibition in an Institute of Technology brought the arpilleras to a new audience, previously unfamiliar with arpilleras. It fulfilled the expectations expressed by Johdi Quinn in the catalogue forword: "May these arpilleras provoke and inspire us into hearing others’ stories as well as searching for a form of expression that most resonates with us as individuals and communities to tell our stories." |
| Documents: |
• Exhibition Catalogue, Sept 2009 - view
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