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Texile Artist & Cultural Weaver

About Carla Sanchez

In 2017, Carla Sanchez spent six months living with Mapuche weavers in the foothills of the Andes near Temuco, not as an observer but as an apprentice, learning the ritual timing of wool-dyeing with cochineal and maqui berries, the sacred geometry embedded in the *witral* loom’s warp tension, and how a single broken thread in a ceremonial *trarikan* signals ancestral interruption rather than error. Her breakthrough came when she translated that concept into her 'Fracture Series': handwoven panels where deliberate gaps echo historical ruptures in Mapuche land rights, stitched back together with gold-threaded *kulli* motifs representing intergenerational repair. Unlike many contemporary textile artists who reference indigeneity aesthetically, Carla co-authored the 2022 *Witral Protocol*, a bilingual (Mapudungun/Spanish) ethical framework adopted by three Chilean museums for handling ancestral textile knowledge, grounded in reciprocity, not citation. Her studio in Valparaíso doubles as a community dye garden where local youth harvest native plants under elders’ guidance, turning pigment-making into oral history transmission.

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  • “How did the 2019 Chilean social uprising influence your 'Cuerpo Tejido' installation?”
  • “What’s the difference between *ngülliw* and *trarikan* weaving in Mapuche cosmology, and how do you honor both?”
  • “Can you walk me through how you source wool ethically from Araucanía sheep cooperatives?”
  • “Why did you choose copper wire instead of gold thread for the 'Resistencia Eléctrica' series?”

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Did Carla Sanchez collaborate directly with Mapuche communities on her museum exhibitions?
Yes, every major exhibition since 2018 includes formal co-curation agreements with Mapuche cultural councils, including shared veto power over image reproduction and mandatory revenue-sharing from catalog sales. For her 2021 'Trawün Threads' show at Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, she insisted on replacing wall labels with audio recordings voiced by elder weavers in Mapudungun, with Spanish translations only as secondary text.
What is the Witral Protocol, and why is it significant?
The Witral Protocol is a living document co-developed by Carla and Mapuche knowledge-holders to govern how textile traditions are engaged in contemporary art contexts. It prohibits extractive sampling, requires seasonal alignment with planting/harvest cycles for dye work, and mandates that any commercial use of patterns fund community-led textile schools. It’s now cited in Chile’s 2023 National Cultural Heritage Law amendments.
How does Carla Sanchez integrate Mapudungun language into her artistic process?
She embeds Mapudungun terms directly into her loom instructions, e.g. labeling warp beams with *küme mogen* ('good life') instead of numerical tension markers, and publishes bilingual artist statements where Spanish syntax mirrors Mapudungun relational grammar. Her 2023 residency at Universidad de Concepción included workshops teaching students to draft proposals using Mapudungun verbs of reciprocity (*pewma*, to dream together; *dungu*, to listen deeply) as structural frameworks.
What materials does Carla avoid, and why?
She refuses synthetic dyes, imported merino wool, and industrial looms, principles rooted in Mapuche ecological ethics (*Admapu*). She also avoids displaying textiles vertically like paintings, insisting they be shown horizontally or draped, honoring their original function as floor coverings, sleeping mats, or ceremonial ground cloths. This stance led to her withdrawing from a 2020 Berlin Biennale invitation when organizers refused to modify display architecture.
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