Tejidos
Xomatok · 2021 · Alisos de Amauta, Ate, Lima, Peru
Photo: @jeremayaf and @fuegoenel.23, as published on Street Art Utopia (18 September 2021).
A painted staircase climbs a Lima hillside in bands of textile colour. Xomatok made Tejidos (Weavings) in 2021 with residents of Alisos de Amauta in Ate, as part of the Municipality of Lima’s Pinta Lima programme. Source Source Source Checked
Seen Aug 2021 — the newest dated photos we found are Andina’s, from the handover on 15 August 2021; El Peruano still described the project in December 2021. No later dated source we found records the stairs’ condition. Source Source Checked
💡 5 things to know
- Two months with the neighboursColossal and My Modern Met say the stairs were painted together with local residents over two months. Source Source Checked
- Every SundayEl Peruano says the stairs were painted in community sessions every Sunday, with painters from children to people over 60. Source Reported
- Patterns from llicllasThe colours and geometric motifs come from llicllas, traditional Andean woven cloths. Source Source Source Checked
- Chosen for the people who live thereEl Peruano says most residents are migrants from the Junín region, with many young mothers, which is why the design drew on llicllas. Source Reported
- 13 staircases, or more than 18?Andina, Colossal and My Modern Met count 13 staircases; Xomatok’s own page says more than 18 stairways. We lean towards 13 for what was handed over on 15 August 2021: it is the figure in the Municipality’s own agency photos and in both magazines, while the artist’s page gives no date for its higher total. Source Source Source Source Conflicting
📍 Where it is
In Alisos de Amauta, in the Ate district of Lima, Peru. The exact staircases are not mapped in our sources, so the button opens a map of the area. Source Source Checked
🗓️ Sightings
- 202115 Aug
Handover photos · Andina
- 202113 Oct
Colossal: 13 painted staircases
- 202129 Oct
My Modern Met: lliclla patterns
- 202128 Dec
El Peruano: Sunday sessions
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“el artista Xomatok junto a los vecinos de Alisos de Amauta en Ate, intervinieron 13 escaleras y un mural”
Translated: the artist Xomatok, together with the residents of Alisos de Amauta in Ate, worked on 13 staircases and a mural.
“the 13 interventions were a collaborative undertaking by the artist and local residents”
Grace Ebert, Colossal.
“Las escaleras las intervinieron en sesiones comunitarias cada domingo.”
Translated: The stairs were painted in community sessions every Sunday.
✅ The facts
- Count
- 13 staircases and a mural (Andina, Colossal, My Modern Met); more than 18 stairways (Xomatok); we lean towards 13 for the August 2021 handover Source Source Source Source Conflicting
🔗 Related
- They Painted 18 Stairways (8 Photos) — Street Art Utopia
- 12 photos: The Most Beautiful Steps in Peru — Street Art Utopia (2021)
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All sources & image credits
- xomatok.com: “Tejidos”, Intervención de escaleras, Lima Perú (2021)
- andina.pe: Entrega de Murales del Proyecto Pinta Lima en Ate Vitarte (gallery, 15 August 2021)
- thisiscolossal.com: 13 Staircases Blanketed with Prismatic Murals…, by Grace Ebert (13 October 2021)
- mymodernmet.com/es: Hermosas escaleras pintadas…, by Sofía Vargas (29 October 2021)
- elperuano.pe: Conozca Pinta Lima… (28 December 2021)
- Image: Tejidos by Xomatok, photos by @jeremayaf and @fuegoenel.23, as published on Street Art Utopia (18 September 2021); a 16:9 share image was made from it.
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