08-05-2021 18:00 via theguardian.com

The pandemic captured in patchwork art – in pictures

In Pinochet-era Chile, a group of women known as the Arpilleristas denounced the violent regime by creating patchwork images out of scraps. That movement is the inspiration behind a new show, All in the Same Storm: Pandemic Patchwork Stories ( 19 May-30 August) , a collaboration between the De La Warr Pavilion in East Sussex and the local Refugee Buddy Project, founded by Rossana Leal. The patches, she says, express how people felt in lockdown: “fear, loneliness, gratitude to the NHS&rdquo
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