"Through my art I want to reveal the Andean people and our capacity to redeem the past."

Coming from a family with a long tradition of handicrafts, David Laura is an artisan in textiles. He was born in in 1945 in Ayacucho, a city that, along with being the cradle of superior pottery, also possesses enormous prestige for its exuberant textile art represented in tapestries and rugs of singular design and color. With his family, David has a workshop dedicated to textiles, making his own name and reputation in this branch of Peruvian art.

"My grandparents and parents were textile artisans, having cultivated this art from their predecessors, ...

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