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Julieth Morales - Woman Workshop

  • The Engine Room Block 1, Massey University. Access via Gate C, Wallace Street Wellington, 6011 New Zealand (map)

Morales' most recognized works is Mujeres jovenes hilando (Young women spinning), in which she made a minga (meeting of friends and neighbours to do some common work) with the women of her community so that the youngest could consolidate the practice of spinning and weaving wool, which has been forgotten. For the Misak community, weaving is a way of thinking, of creating thought and knowledge. For this reason, Julieth can lead a meeting with women to learn to weave and direct a conversation that starts from this same feeling and can be connected with the territory that other people inhabit while they are weaving.

The result is the transformation of the thread prepared in the encounter by each one of the women. The thread here is the possibility of weaving their intimate thoughts and those of their collective, so the installation starts from the puchicangas (tool used to spin wool) but ends up being a reinterpretation made by each one of the women, which serves as a remembrance of a time in which thoughts were spun and weaved.

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