Stefania Palmieri Brings "Attaccamenti" to Rome: Textile Sculpture Between Magic and Ancestral Memory

Sicilian artist Stefania Palmieri presents Attaccamenti, a solo exhibition at Studio 54 in Via Gabrio Serbelloni, Rome, running for just two days: Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2026. The vernissage takes place Thursday 25 September at 17:00. Rather than following a linear narrative, the show unfolds through accumulations and overlapping layers — both material and symbolic — drawing on magic and folk medicine practices, regional healing knowledge, and Sicilian peasant tradition. Palmieri's chosen medium is textile, deployed sculpturally: the works interweave feathers, paper, marks, photographs, and weaves, producing objects that appear to hold their own internal, almost ritual logic. These are not decorations but devices. A precise theoretical framework underpins the work, which the artist anchors in the idea of a thread that is not chosen — one that precedes and runs through us before we can recognize it. The exhibition is organized around this concept of attachments that are inherited rather than selected.