Mud Gallery “Association Loceras de Pilén”

At the arrival of the conquerors who were seeking fortune, the now called Central Valley of Chile posed great risks of ambushes and the powerful rivers that from time to time cut the road and posed a sometimes impossible difficulty. Thus, the preferred route for those first foreign hosts were the ancient indigenous roads that crossed the mountain range of the thing, founding the oldest towns in the Nation and merging local cultures.

Four hundred years later some of those practices are still maintained as a result of the hybridization of two cultures. Pottery is one of them. A group of women in the town of Pilen are one of their strongholds, a human heritage that despite virtual abandonment, have managed to put their craft under cover by teaching, manufacturing, and selling their handicrafts.

The work, built in an experimental technique of steel mesh armed quincha, supposes the possibility of keeping this practice alive: it is a classroom for the days when the cold weather does not allow to be outdoors, it is an exhibition hall and also the place where to treasure your best pieces while meeting atrium with outsiders interested in their stories.