- Opening Exhibition Event: Saturday 1st August at 2pm
- Exhibition Dates: Saturday 1st – 31st August
Students have made textiles, to raise an awareness that we live entangled lives, that our choices impact on those individuals and environments far from us, and that literature and textiles have a particular way of speaking these realities. Tatiana Lobo, whose short stories are central to our studies, was Chilean by birth but naturalised Costa Rican. She is one of a growing group of Latin American authors of ecologically-focused literature to come to prominence in the latter part of the 20th century.
The choice to incorporate textiles, arpilleras, in the study of Latin American literature originated from a collaboration with curator of the Conflict Textiles collection, Roberta Bacic in 2011. Arpilleras are brightly-coloured appliqué or embroidered pictures stitched onto sack cloth/burlap (arpillera in Spanish). Originally, arpilleras bore witness to the experiences of the oppressed in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s during the totalitarian military regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
By bringing these textiles into the classroom we seek to create a new space for the student experience, and by so doing provoke a more personal and even communal response than might normally arise in traditional essay assessments.
More information: https://millenniumcourt.co.uk/story-threads-exhibition-by-students-from-queens-university-belfast/
