SPIGOLATURE - SCREEN by Susanna Costantini and Antonio Barone

Lake Como Design Festival CONTEMPORARY DESIGN SELECTION

14 - 21 September 2025

Susanna Costantini and Antonio Barone create a textile dividing element that evokes ‘edging’ as a metaphor for the selective process of memory, enhancing the marginal and forgotten element in a dialogue between preservation and abandonment.

“Spigolature” are textile panels hand-woven by Susanna Costantini on a traditional loom.

“Gleaning” becomes a metaphor for the selective process of memory and a search that enhances the marginal and forgotten element. In this dialogue between preservation and abandonment, the textile act is transformed into existential discernment.

For the textile panels, Susanna Costantini uses recovered yarns and fragments of warps from previous workings, elevating this ancestral technique to a conceptual methodology. The recovered yarns become geometric inserts and abstract forms that emerge from the weaving as elements of discontinuity or complex elaborations.

The “Spigolature” therefore stand as evidence of a transformative process that continually redefines the boundary between ephemeral and permanent, reflecting the mechanism of memory when recording experience: some elements settle as memories, others fade away.

The installation of the textile panels on a movable support designed by Antonio Barone allows the fabric to oscillate, creating a fluid separation that evokes the very movement of memory: a filter that now holds, now lets through, in a perpetual dialogue between memory and oblivion.