FEARLESS, FEMALE ARTISTS IN HISTORY. FORGOTTEN BY THE ART WORLD THEY LIVE AGAIN IN TEXTILE ART.

Faithful to its mission of giving impetus and visibility to textile art, Ad Maiora has organized the sixth edition of the biennial exhibition of Verona Tessile. IMPAVIDE is the theme proposed for the international collective dedicated to the many women who in the past and present have fought and are fighting to forcefully assert their creativity and technical expertise in a predominantly male artistic world. But IMPAVIDE has also become the title chosen for the entire festival, a title that gives it a deliberately connoted message.

For this reason we thought of working visually on the word IMPAVIDE, imagining ourselves in the place of these women artists. IMPAVIDE was printed, then cut, then sewn back together. The word is still legible but the wounds and a cut that won't go away are visible.  Tgarlic evocative of the symbol used in the battles of the 70s, cut as a wound inflicted by a knife, cut as the possibility of seeing beyond... Everyone can interpret it based on their personal history, for us it was to symbolically visualize a courageous, often painful process, using the materials (fabric and thread) protagonists of the Verona exhibition.