28/11/2024
In the 2021 SOMA project, weaving became a medium to draw landscapes altered by the 2016 earthquake.
The weaving works are now until the 29th November on Show at Palazzo dei Pagamenti in Milano, in an exhibition curated by .fair artcurator
“The collectively crafted fabrics are not simply warp and weft. Plaited braids are woven into some of them, underscoring their three-dimensionality. These structures resemble veins in marble and are readable as drawings. Other woven works appear as translations of landscape in a metaphoric sense. They were created looking out over the Umbrian countryside. This view disseminates the somatic perception of the landscape into the weavings.”
“Luisa Eugeni crafted these pieces in collaboration with her family, blending regional practices with experimentation. Her father built a simple but functional weaving frame from basic materials, while her mother, an expert in plaiting, contributed braided skeins of three, five, or seven threads. (..)Former colleagues of Eugeni’s mother, who once supplied haute couture houses in Florence and northern Italy, donated vintage yarns for the project. These included silk bouclé, Lurex, cotton, and linen, woven together in the exhibition’s pieces. Dormant weaving machines sprang back to life, sharing traditional knowledge and craft techniques.
Friends and family joined the weaving process, their hands telling stories. As anthropologist Tim Ingold notes, „The hand can also tell the stories of the world […] in the manipulation of threads as in weaving, lacemaking and embroidery.“
(Excerpt from Contextures or the Hope of the Fireflies, by Mona Schieren, in SOMA Katalog)
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