La Broma is a narrative textile art burlap piece. Arpillera is the name given to the clandestine tapestries created by Chilean women during the Pinochet dictatorship.
The textile arts have served as a narrative vehicle providing their tools and means of expression: needles, threads, wool, burlap, clothing and the body as creators of collective stories, this is how the hands that embroidering tell, that by sewing narrate and write history.
The decade of the 70 is a witness of the birth of the arpilleristas, like artists of the resistance. Mainly women who opposed a dictatorship terror and poverty with solidarity as a value.
The arpillera in the narrative of the textile arts is related to the almazuela and the collage. In my case I associate it with naive art or naive painting, probably because of the color, the richness of the details and the expressiveness of its evocations.
Likewise, I find similarities with poor art, due to the use of easily obtainable materials, they are creative and spontaneous movements and they move away from industrial reproduction. Not to mention, the rich and important heritage of the art of embroidery and its impact on various art movements and the world of fashion.
The Arpillera La Broma tells us about space, our place in the world and the way we treat resources as a consequence of our rhythm of life, tons and tons of plastics and waste are being abandoned in the oceans and lands that they suffer mistreatment and contamination.
La Broma — narrative textile art burlap piece, map and memory
It seems to be decided by where we are born, our family, habits, governments, companies, the climate. Everything.
Borders mark the world, for some it is easier to cross them than for others. This social agreement must be a joke, a joke that after being repeated so much became a bad taste joke.
Some borders are more dominant than others, more expansive, screaming and making they felt more strongly. But we all know that the one who screams the most is not always right.
This Arpillera is an invitation to define our space, be it internal or external. You’re where you come from, right? You are your circumstances, maybe. The borders are up to you. Expansion is in your area of control, but if you don’t believe it, let yourself go and watch.
We are all the same and we share spaces with other species equal and even more wonderful than ours. We inhabit a beautiful planet that we mistreat and pollute and yet it cares for us and feeds us, let’s begin to respect it.
In conclusion, we are a grain of dust compared to the greatness of planet Earth, so breathe and calm down!
LA BROMA — one-of-a-kind narrative textile art burlap piece. Malimbus Studio
