Valeria Montti Colque Chilean-Swedish, b. 1978
Hästkastanjen / The Horse Chestnut, 2021
Textile, collage
152 x 251 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.