HISTORY: TEXTILES

Title: En el lado "bueno" de la valla / On the "Good" side of the fence
Object Name: Wall Hanging
Maker: Amador, Antonia (Primary maker)
Amador, Antonia (maker)
Date Made: 2015
2015
Place Made: Catalonia
Catalonia
Description: This arpillera focuses on asyluim seekers and migrants journey by sea to Europe from Africa. From the Conflict Textiles website, 'Arpillerista Antonia, enraged by these stories, informs us through a letter tucked in a pocket at the back of her arpillera: “On the “good” side of the fence [shows] that …while on the boat they never thought they would find their death.” She graphically portrays the arrival of these asylum seekers and migrants who “believed they [were coming] to paradise.” Instead, she tells us, “it was the Police that awaited them on the shore of the peninsula.”'
Materials: cotton
Place Collected
Date Collected: 2022
2022
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2023.3.9
Copyright: © Conflict Textiles, Photograph by Martin Melaugh.

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