Maria Lai's Threads of Memory at Studio Trisorio

Studio Trisorio in Naples presents "Tessere la notte," a solo exhibition of works by Sardinian artist Maria Lai (1919–2013), running from [date not specified]. The show spans 1978 to 2011, featuring looms, sewn books, ceramics, and embroidered sheets. Key works include "Tenendo per mano l'ombra" (1987), a sewn fairy tale about embracing one's shadow; "Tessere la notte" (2009), a dismantled loom with one of her signature sheep made collaboratively with Sardinian women; "Lenzuolo" (1992), a domestic sheet transformed into narrative surface; and sewn books like "Vento sui vetri" (1993) and "Senza titolo" (2004). Also on view is "A Gramsci 3" (2004–2008), referencing Gramsci's prison notebooks. The exhibition highlights Lai's tactile language of humble materials—thread, cloth, wool, stone, flour, clay—and her practice of weaving as a metaphor for memory, relationship, and storytelling.