Art Residency - Site specific installation, chorus performance
Cotton, various yarns (wool, cotton, silk, mixed),
Fabric stripes (velvet, damasque, brocade, casentino cloth), trimmings.
Frame: cotton/polyamide
Handweaving
Sound spectrogram: Inno delle Tessitrici, Anna Identici
Chorus performance Inno delle Tessitrici by Coro delle Mnemosine
13 x 1,1 m
The spectrogram of the Hymn of the Weavers (Inno delle Tessitrici), an italian protest song dated back to 1910, is woven using different yarns, stripes of damasques, brocades, velvets and trimmings.
Every weft thread is an homage to the great textile tradition of Tuscany region and to its landscape.
The piece has been woven during an art residency with a handloom in one of the cell of the former convent and prison, now converted into a contemporary art space, Le Murate.