The Center of the Carme Culture Contemporary (CCCC) Presents the exhibition The Subversive Stitch, by María Carbonell, an exhibition that unites the textile tradition with the feminist struggle, recovering the memory of the British suffragettes and putting it in relation to the demands of current movements. The exhibition has its origins in the research work that Carbonell carried out during his residency to create the Consorci de Museus at the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center in Alicante.. Over there, collected the legacy of the British suffragettes, analyzing the patterns one by one, embroidery, colors and shapes of the banners from between centuries that they used in their marches. A work that is now presented in an expanded form for the aforementioned exhibition.
According to the artist, This exhibition talks about textiles and the body through a genealogy of women. “Through the ten banners that are hanging in the room, “I establish a symbolic bridge between the British suffrage movement and contemporary feminist activism.”, has indicated. “These banners that the suffragettes used in their marches in London, in between 1907 y 1913, to claim the right to vote were very important, because they constitute the first time that textile practices were used as tools for political demands, a language associated with the domestic space, “The feminine comes out to public space for the first time.”, Carbonell has recognized.
The title of the exhibition refers to the book 'The Subversive Stitch’ (1984), de Rozsika Parker, in which we analyze how embroidery has operated simultaneously as a mechanism of female domestication and as a potential space for emancipation and resistance..
