TOUCH AND TEXTILE CREATION AT THE CHILEAN PRECOLUMBIAN ART MUSEUM
As part of the temporary exhibition Contactos. Textiles coloniales de los Andes (Contacts: Colonial Textiles from the Andes), the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art presents a mediation room for visitors, designed to bring them closer to the richness of Andean textile production and expand reflections on contemporary connections. This space invites the audience to think of weaving as a language that links people, memories, and territories, enabling collective and sensory experiences.
Located in the Philippi Room, next to the temporary exhibition, the space opens with a piece by the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco, created collaboratively by the Quechua communities of Acopía, Mahuaypampa, and Maras; it symbolizes the union of two different halves, encouraging the public to reflect on ways of coexistence in the present.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to experience textile production processes through the work of weaver and designer Sofía Hott and the creation of a large collective loom designed by artist Julio Chávez. In this interactive piece, each participant will contribute to a living artwork that will take shape throughout the exhibition period.
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Sala de mediación en el Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Cortesía del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Sala de mediación en el Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Cortesía del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Sala de mediación en el Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Cortesía del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Sala de mediación en el Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Cortesía del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Sala de mediación en el Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. Cortesía del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
For Sofía Hott, it is essential for the audience to have a tactile experience, allowing them to touch and engage with a weaver’s process: "We want people to appreciate the tools, materials, and handmade work behind each of these elements."
Additionally, the room features a large vertical loom that invites spectators to weave into it and leave a small piece of fabric. For the designer of Away Pacha, it is crucial that "everyone dares to approach this device and takes a moment to contemplate what weaving entails—without worrying about doing it right or wrong, just by trying, in an act of interweaving as a society."
Away Pacha seeks to build a bridge between Contacts and the continuity of textile craftsmanship today. It showcases and allows guests to embody a contemporary Andean weaving process that nods to the past while firmly situating itself in the present.
The new Mediation Room will be open until June 29, 2025, at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Bandera 361, Santiago (Chile).
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