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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?”