SPIGOLATURE - SCREEN by Susanna Costantini and Antonio Barone
Lake Como Design Festival
FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY
Villa del Grumello, Como
14-21 September 2025
Susanna Costantini and Antonio Barone create a textile dividing element that evokes ‘gleaning’ 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.
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.
