Something about us
Fabrics
2024
Intrecci di storie, colori e tessuti raccolti in vari paesi in stato di desertificazione sociale dell’Italia Meridionale, accogliendoli come dono dalle famiglie o recuperandoli dalle abitazioni abbandonate. Riprendendo la tradizione locale del corredo e sottraendo all’abbandono elementi intimi e quotidiani come lenzuola e coperte, contenitori di microstorie locali, Something about us fa parte di una ricerca antropologica e sociologica sull’emigrazione, sulle relazioni familiari e sulla condizione storica, economica e sociale del Sud Italia contemporaneo.
Interweaving of stories, colors and fabrics collected in various countries in a state of social desertification in Southern Italy, welcomed as gifts by families or recovered from abandoned homes. Taking up the local tradition of trousseau and removing from abandonment intimate and everyday elements such as sheets and blankets, containers of local micro-stories, Something about us is part of an anthropological and sociological research on emigration, on family relationships and on the historical, economic and society of contemporary Southern Italy.