Biography
Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida is a series of site-specific installations built around large-scale woven copper-wire portraits by Chilean-Canadian artist Soledad Fátima Muñoz. Their purpose was to commemorate the lives of those who were disappeared or executed during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990).
In 2004, the Chilean National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture recognized 1,132 sites used to perpetrate human rights violations during the dictatorship. Woven Memory installations have been hosted on these sites by the communities of La Veleidosa Mine, Tocopilla (2022); the former detention and torture centre Sitio de Memoria La Providencia, Antofagasta (2022); clandestine torture and extermination centre Londres 38, Santiago (2023); and Centro Cultural Museo y Memoria, Neltume (2024).
The Woven Memory core team is composed of Soledad Fátima Muñoz, Rodrigo Suarez Madariaga, Nancy Lee, Matthew Asaminew and María Cristina Adasme. This project was made possible thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council.