Gallery Talk: Creating Communities: Resilience, Resourcefulness, and Folk Art in Spaces of Detention

Photo: Wall hanging (detention center) “Everywhere every man has the right to be recognized as a human being before the law.” Artist unrecorded, 1978, Santiago, Chile. Cotton tocuyo (sacking material), wool synthetic fibers, wood. Museum of International Folk Art, Gift of Louise Durston, A.1979.2.17

~This quote, stitched in the arpillera (fabric collage), references the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.