EMBROIDERY MATILDE CERRUTI QUARA

ABOUT THE WORK
Matilde Cerruti Quara
BED POETRY #1 - SVUOTA LA TESTA, 2021
Hand embroidered poetry on linen

Edition of 3, numbered and signed by the artist

Set includes:
160 GSM washed 100% linen flat sheet, (270 x 280 cm)
160 GSM washed 100% linen pillowcase, (set of 2, 50 x 75 cm)

Matilde’s poetry embroideries are meditations on the impossible simplicity of life’s multiple truths, as well as on the infinite possibilities of words and language. They take the shape of slogans or affirmations, questions or playfully serious quotes. Within each artwork there is a careful analysis on the significance of colours and what they might evoke, almost as per synaesthesia. The time taken into embroidering each piece by hand is essential to the process and becomes in itself an exercise in zen—reflecting on patience, labour and care.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Matilde Cerruti Quara (b.1992, lives and works in London, UK and Trieste, IT) is a multimedia artist, poet, theatre-maker, writer and performer of Italian and South Slavic descent.
Rooted in storytelling, her work reflects on language, archetypes and systems of belief, spirituality and rituals, power dynamics. In February 2020, she debuted her first full-length play VERDIGRIS, produced with the support of Arts Council England at Jupiter Woods, London, UK. Her prose writing and poetry are published, amidst others, by Mousse Publishing; MIT List Visual Arts Centre; Towner Art Gallery, the Italian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and featured in independent publishing projects such as ECOCORE, Site Projects and Montez Press Radio (forthcoming). She held a rubric “In the studio with...” for L’Uomo Vogue and was a regular contributor to i-D Magazine ITALY, intertwining fashion, art and think pieces.

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