Abstract

AUZA ARAMAYO, Verónica. A grimace of jalq’a femininity: Monstrous bodies in the textile’s sublimated tactility. Tinkazos [online]. 2010, vol.13, n.28, pp.131-142. ISSN 1990-7451.

Textiles contribute to history a visual, tactile language, a language of the skin. In this essay the author reflects on the sublimated beauty that gives the jalq’a aqsu its darkness, invites us to look closely and place ourselves inside the ungovernable interior of the monstrous bodies that people these textiles, and allows us to experience the audacity that gives shape and colour to the ukhu pacha, from the feminine spaces that are as daring as they are imaginative of the culture.

Keywords : textile language; weavings; jalq’a textiles; andean women; jalq’a women weavers; jalq’a culture; textile art; jalq’a aqsu.

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