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Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru Dec 3, 2017 through Jul 17, 2019
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru
Museum of International Folk Art

The past forty years have been a time of tremendous change in the Andes, beginning with the Agrarian Reform of 1969 that broke up the large haciendas; a twenty-year internal armed conflict with the Shining Path that engulfed the 1980’s and 1990’s and claimed nearly 70,000 lives; economic swings, rapid development, the recent large investment in preserving archaeological heritage and the current booming tourism industry. 

All of these forces have all shaped the lives of artists and informed the art they create.  Crafting Memory visits a series of contemporary folk artists in Peru and places their work within this larger framework of Peruvian history and social change. The exhibition will explore the many routes through which craft and folk arts are learned and practiced, including multigenerational crafting families, self-taught artisans, and others who came to folk arts as a means of economic survival during the time of violence.  The show includes a third generation silversmith reviving the art of tupus or shawl stick pins that were worn during the Inca Empire; the art of war orphans from the 1980’s who were trained in traditional arts to give hope in dark times; and a collective of young artists in Lima using the medium of silk screening to promote conversations between rural highland and jungle communities with their counterpart migrant neighborhoods in the city, celebrating their shared arts, culture, and customs and emphasizing the value of the handmade, and the ideas, values, and aesthetics that arise from Cultura Popular - common people and everyday life.


For more information, contact Amy Groleau at (505) 476-1223 , amy.groleau@state.nm.us

Related Photos

Woman's Outfit
Wari Tie Dye Tunic Panel
Study for 'La Flora y Fauna de Pachamama'
Retablo
Polleras (Skirts)
Shawl Pins
Wari Tie Dye Shawl
Chullu C
Chullu A
Chullu B
The Plants and Animals of Mother Earth
Cross of the Passion
Amapolay Poster B
Amapolay Poster
Rosalia Tineo and artwork “Tortura de mi Papa/My Father’s Torture” (Museum of international Folk Art). Photographer: Amy Groleau Courtesy: IFAF Collection, Museum of International Folk Art


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