Bodies, textiles and knowledge of Wixaritari women

Abstract

In this text I intend to address the textiles of Wixaritari women as knowledge of indigenous women, within a conception that considers textiles as an expression of women's experience, in which they capture/remake forms of nature in strokes, shapes, dimensions and colors.

The text focuses on two aspects: the first refers to problematizing what is understood by art/craft and the second, to discuss the creation of textiles as a form of textileized expression of the lived and symbolized environment, which is not fictional in the sense of narrating, from the imagination or utopia, but from decanted ways of being in the world and that arise in the events of the life experience of Wixaritari women. What I propose is to understand textiles as a writing of knowledge where women participate with their bodies and their life experiences within the communities.