HISTORY: TEXTILES

Title: Hilvanando la búsqueda / Stitching the search
Object Name: Wall Hanging
Maker: Drouilly, Nicole (Primary maker)
Date Made: 2014
2014
Place Made: Chile
Chile
Description: On October 30th 1974, Jacqueline Drouilly and Marcelo Salinas Eytel were abducted from their home in Santiago, just over a year after General Pincohet seized power in Chile in a coup d'état. Jacqueline's sister Nicole created this to show the stages of the search, from looking for her to moving towards realisation that they would never see her again. She commends those who pause to view her quilt. “… I thank them from now and forever the passing minutes they dedicate to observe the quilt and unite to me in thinking about Jacqueline.”
Materials: cotton
Date Collected: 2022
2022
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2023.3.7
Copyright: © Conflict Textiles, Photograph by Roser Corbera.

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