"Songs of Uprising and Freedom"
Various material and techniques
Sound Spectrograms: textile workers’ protest songs
(Bread and Roses, Mimi Baez Farinha - Les Canuts, Aristide Bruant - Inno delle Tessitrici, Anna Identici)
Bread and Roses: Cotton, handweaving, traditional overshot weave “rose” motif revisited
Les Canuts: Silk, cotton and silk threads, hand-dyeing with shibori technique, embroidery
Weavers’ Hymn: Jute canvas, cotton, silk, embroidery, textile interventions, personal technique
Each stripe 150 x 20 cm
Installation 150 x 100 cm
Chanting has always been a constant in textile work, it’s rythm, accompaniment that builds a bond between workers.
Several protest songs were born in different historical contexts expressing the fight for fundamental rights of textile labourers, universal rights that are still being threatened today.