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Just three days remain until the opening of the \u201cArpilleras \u2013 Threads of Memory\u201d exhibition. Today, the Sybir Memorial Museum hosted a press conference announcing the first major presentation of arpilleras<\/em> in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting was attended by the Mayor of Bia\u0142ystok, Tadeusz Truskolaski, and the exhibition curators and representatives: Wojciech \u015aleszy\u0144ski, Director of the Sybir Memorial Museum; Julita Wa\u015b, Development Specialist; and Andr\u00e9s Mauricio Rojas Rojas, International Relations Specialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition features twenty-four arpilleras as well as a section devoted to works created by Sybiraks. It opens with a work depicting the bombing of the Presidential Palace in Santiago in 1973, which marked the beginning of Augusto Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cVisitors may wonder why, at the Sybir Memorial Museum, we are presenting stories from the other side of the world. However, regardless of whether a dictatorship was left-wing or right-wing, it always brought suffering. This is precisely what this exhibition is about,\u201d said Wojciech \u015aleszy\u0144ski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9s Mauricio Rojas Rojas highlighted the artistic dimension of arpilleras<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were created out of an urgent need to bear witness. Although they are full of vivid colours and may appear innocent at first glance, they speak in a very clear and moving way about human rights violations. The stories of Chileans and Sybiraks may seem distant from one another, but these works remind us that people always find creative ways to preserve memory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all, the exhibition highlights the strength of women\u2019s resistance to the violence of oppressive systems. In 1983, the \u201cWomen for Life\u201d movement was established in Chile, organising peaceful demonstrations. One of its symbols became the dance known as La Cueca Sola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWomen performed it wearing photographs of their missing husbands, sons, fathers and brothers over their hearts,\u201d explained Julita Wa\u015b. \u201cUnlike the joyful traditional La Cueca, which is danced in pairs, La Cueca Sola became a poignant act in which the silence left by the loss of loved ones speaks most powerfully.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mayor of Bia\u0142ystok, Tadeusz Truskolaski, invited visitors to see the exhibition and emphasised what connects the two stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuffering, the struggle against regimes and the effort to survive \u2013 these are the experiences that connect both stories. Both Chileans and our Sybiraks expressed their feelings through art. This is the common thread connecting the stories presented in this exhibition,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening ceremony will take place on Friday, 10 July 2026, at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cArpilleras \u2013 Threads of Memory\u201d exhibition has been prepared in cooperation with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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