{"id":1352,"date":"2019-02-19T01:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianasilva.co\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:46:00","slug":"ropa-blanca-white-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianasilva.co\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Ropa Blanca \/ White Clothing 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I will follow mysterious cotton blankets found in caves wrapping mummies. Theses mummies belonged to the Guane people, an indigenous group from Colombia.  I grew up surrounded by the mountains where these caves-cemeteries were found. As a child, I heard about these archeological finds but I never really saw any of them. Later on, when I became an adult and an artist I decided to research about these renowned blankets and is where the story started.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ropa Blanca<\/em> (White Clothing) is an art project inspired by a cotton textile created by a group of rural women in Colombia. These women have revived partial knowledge of the ancestral techniques of growing, spinning, and weaving of the Guane People, an indigenous group that no longer exists. The project aims to explore the various moments and stories associated with this type of hand-crafted canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unproductive People \/ Improductividad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Embroidery on hand-craft cotton textile, 32″ x 51″, 2018 \/ Bordado sobre lienzo de algod\u00f3n artesanal, 83 cm x 130 cm, 2108<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*It is a quote from Memorias de Hacienda, 1847, Florentino Gonzalez, State Secretary for the Treasury Desk of the Nueva Granada Government (today it is Colombia) This quote was found in the article “Santander, el algod\u00f3n y los tejidos del siglo XIX” by Pierre Raymond, Ph.D., and published in Revista Credencial, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrapped & Covered \/ Envuelto, revestido y recubierto <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Inkjet print on semi – gloss paper, (2) x 41\u201d x 61\u201d, 2018 \/ Impresi\u00f3n inkjet sobre papel semi-brillante, (2) x 105 cm x 155 cm, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White Clothing \/ Ropa blanca<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Installation, hand-crafted cotton textile, stop-motion animation, sublimation on textile, dimensions variable, 2018 \/ Instalaci\u00f3n, textile artesanal de algod\u00f3n, animaci\u00f3n stop-motion, sublimaci\u00f3n sobre textil, dimensiones variables, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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