![]() Richard Saltoun includes two textile pieces in its solo booth at Frieze Masters, in which Maranò works with medieval canvas. ![]() Deeply anti-conformist, Maranò challenged conventions of textiles, ceramics and painting. Courtesy: Richard Saltounįranca Maranò was Lai’s contemporary, working in southern Italy, where she founded the first avant-garde gallery and exhibited Lai’s work. Medieval canvas, black cotton thread and black wool thread, orange-coloured medieval canvas, 74 × 93 cm. MW2 at Frieze Masters and on Frieze Viewing Room.įranca Maranò, Untitled, 1976. Lai’s writing may be illegible, but this intimate window offers a story we can share, following the thread as it tangles, tautens and releases. This is perhaps most explicit in Lai’s Autobiografie ( Autobiographies) (1979). Lai devoted her practice to interrogating and expanding the linguistic potential of thread: not only did she challenge its sociopolitical charge, dismantling the medium’s framing as a ‘feminine’ practice, she developed it as a personal means of writing. ‘Stretching out the Infinite’ reveals the Sardinian artist’s revolutionary approach to textile, unveiling key works from the 1960s–70s for the first time. Thread is masterfully unfurled by Maria Lai in M77’s space at Frieze Masters. Maria Lai, Autobiografia, 1979, thread on fabric, wooden frame, 12 × 9 × 2 cm. H33 at Frieze London and on Frieze Viewing Room. The artist combines yarn, acrylic and rope to question how systemic oppression informs personal experiences and interpersonal relationships. Metaferia has collaborated with the Brixton-based Black Cultural Archives (BCA) to incorporate archival material into her latest series of tapestries through silk screen printing. Courtesy Addis Fine ArtĪddis Fine Art’s Frieze London booth marks the first time that research-orientated artist Helina Metaferia has exhibited in London. Silkscreened fabric, acrylic, yarn and rope, 1.2 × 2.4 m. Helina Metaferia, Tapestry (Gawlo), 2023. Here are some of their innovative approaches. For these artists, threads weave, knot, fray and unravel history, memory and feeling. The medium reveals itself as a space for play, experimentation, association and challenge, inhabited by Helina Metaferia, Maria Lai, Franca Maranò, Gala Berger, Santiago Yahuarcani, Qualeasha Wood, Nengi Omuku, Zoë Buckman, Mary Kelly, Peter Collingwood, Simone Prouvé and Mark Corfield-Moore. The political power and intimate resonance of textile is explored at Frieze Masters and Frieze London, 11–15 October in The Regent’s Park.
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