Artworks
Takeaway
Valeria Montti Colque Chilean-Swedish, b. 1978
Stenen (mor och barn) / The Stone (Mother and Child), 2021
Textile, collage
99 x 67 cm
In Chile, the woven surface carries memory. From Mapuche looms in the south to Andean threads in the north, textiles have long served as language — a geometry of belonging,...
In Chile, the woven surface carries memory. From Mapuche looms in the south to Andean threads in the north, textiles have long served as language — a geometry of belonging, lineage, and protection. The carpet, though not native to Chile, entered domestic and artistic life as both ground and image: a portable territory woven from hybrid histories. In contemporary practice, artists reclaim the act of weaving as a gesture of resistance and repair, binding together Indigenous knowledge, colonial traces, and personal mythologies. Each thread becomes a way of remembering — of re-grounding the body within a landscape of migration and return.
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