Intended as a space to express and debate the body, Unfinished Embroidery focuses on gender through the social and artistic attributes commonly ascribed to embroidery. Conceived both as a video and live experience (taking place on October 26th at 7 pm), the performance of visual artist ©Giorgiagiorgiagiorgia, alias Giorgia Loccarini (Senigallia, 1988), reflects on a crucially significant passage of The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine. Rozsika Parker’s insightful 1984 essay reveals how in Western culture embroidery, having previously been practiced by both sexes, has been progressively confined within the domestic sphere, becoming instrumental in defining the social role of women. Unfinished Embroidery, curated by Rossella Della Vecchia, intends to deconstruct that assumption, revealing, as the title suggests, an unfinished work of embroidery, whose ideological pattern is sewn and unsewn, with the potential to abort every patriarchal stereotype. The performance, carried out by actor Elisa De Martis, will in fact entail her body being literally undressed, shedding the social constructs that encumber it. Released from her objectification, the performer will then practice crochet within an artistic space, feeling free to create something shapeless and undefined to submit to the audience’s gaze.

Promoted within the spaces provided by NITIDO-Exhibition & Body Art, Unfinished Embroidery will be taking place with the collaboration of NITIDO-Allestimenti and NITIDO-Comunicazione & Grafica.