II International Biennial of Contemporary Fibre Art
Museo del Ricamo e del Tessile, Valtopina, IT
06.09 - 08.12.2024

Embroidery and Textile Museum of Valtopina presents II International Biennial of Contemporary Fibre Art: RADICI, METAMORFOSI, MESCOLANZE (Roots, Metamorphosis, Mixtures)

From 6 September to 8 December 2024 with an opening reception Friday 6 September 2024 at 11:30 a.m.

We live in times of rapid and radical change, a liquid present that heralds an unpredictable future that is difficult to imagine. In this scenario, what do terms such as identity, individuality, plurality, globalisation, multiculturalism mean today - and what will they mean in the future? To this broad reflection on our time is dedicated RADICI, METAMORFOSI, MESCOLANZE, the 2nd edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Fiber Art, curated by Barbara Pavan, which will be held from 6 September to 8 December 2024 at the Museum of Embroidery and Textiles in Valtopina (Perugia, Umbria, IT) promoted by Scuola Ricamo Valtopina and the Municipal Administration with the patronage of the Region of Umbria, the Province of Perugia, CEDRAV, Umbria Ecomusei, CCIAA Perugia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno, Club UNESCO Foligno and Fonti del Clitunno ODV. 

The Biennial will open on Friday 6 September at 11.30 a.m. at the same time as the opening of the 21st Exhibition of Embroidery and Textiles, a well-established event of national significance within the sector. Guided tours are planned throughout the day on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September 2024.

Thirty-one artists from European and non-European countries have been invited. They investigate a changing and rapidly transforming present, trying to imagine its evolution through an approach that combines contemporary art with textile techniques and materials and, from time to time, with scientific and technological research, philosophical speculation, and social and political figure. On show will be the works of Elham M.Aghili, Luciana Aironi, Jorgelina Alessandrelli, Jacobo Alonso, Brigitte Amarger, Mariantonietta Bagliato, Silvia Beccaria, Isobel Blank, Lea Contestabile, Carla Crosio, Kinga Földi, Patrizia Fratus, Monica Giovinazzi, Raija Jokinen, Patricia Kelly, Anikó Kovács Csonga, Deborah Kruger, Margherita Levo Rosenberg, Florencia Martinez, Nanon Morsink, Guido Nosari, Federica Patera e Andrea Sbra Perego, Sonia izn Piscicelli, Elena Redaelli, Giulia Spernazza, Olga Teksheva, Xénia Tóth, Alessandro Turoni, Davide Viggiano, Izabela Walczak, Tania Welz.

Analogical and (more or less) digital generations live today an epic revolution while navigating, at the same time, in the storm of several simultaneous crises and epochal challenges: it is, ours, an interesting and frightening present, one of those passages of History in which past and future duel most fiercely. The work of the artists in this exhibition moves among many questions, multiplying the reflections and hypotheses that arise from the restlessness of our era - the Anthropocene - and try to look beyond the hic et nunc, to find the coordinates of balances never experienced before. Hybridization and mixture are perhaps the keys to interpreting the experience arising from the micro and macro metamorphoses in fieri, unexplored territories in which memory as much as oblivion, the strength of the roots as much as the courage of of the slenderest branches stretching boldly towards the unknown sky are necessary.

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