Caterina Roppo's Textile Installation Explores Trauma at Fischbacher 1819 in Milan

Visual artist Caterina Roppo has transformed the Fischbacher 1819 showroom in Milan into an immersive textile installation titled 'Everybody has pain somewhere', running until April 18. The exhibition, straddling Art Week and Design Week, investigates trauma transmission and prevention. Roppo draws inspiration from stone scars as ancestral resilience symbols, translating them into fabric to create a visual and tactile language exploring pain and memory. The artist, who survived a life-threatening accident, documents her process with her therapist and aims to open conversations about PTSD. The show also presents the second chapter of the 'Ancient Memories' collection, a capsule collaboration between Marcel Wanders and the artist, produced by Fischbacher 1819. Critic Domitilla Dardi contributes a text comparing Roppo's weaving to mythological figures like Penelope and Arachne, emphasizing the therapeutic power of textile creation. A sound installation by Lorenzo Brusci complements the works, inviting silence for inner resonance. The exhibition is supported by Incalmi and Arte Laguna Prize, utilizing a 'smalto a fuoco' (enamel firing) technique recovered from Italian jewelry tradition. Roppo states that shedding female guilt is an act of activism. The project emerged from dialogues between Roppo and Camilla Douraghy Fischbacher, the brand's Creative Director.