il racconto del diavolo

The subjects depicted in the tapestries correspond with those of the paintings, which have been reworked and revisited through this technique. The artist, feeling the need to reflect again on certain themes, went to resume the visual composition and the history of some of her existing works and to remake them in tapestry format. This method, much slower than her painting, allowed her to spend entire months working on a single work, savoring and reliving even more the situation depicted. In addition, the threads make the work “haptic”, tactile, immediate and aimed at one of the senses which according to classical aesthetics is “of closeness” (touch); the paintings, on the other hand, “optici”, are perceived from afar. This difference, this new technique forces the viewer to observe closely, to enjoy in a different way,
"The Devil, during the night, while people sleep, passes and cuts the hair of some, which are completely forgotten and forgotten until the hair grows back"

In this work we wanted to explain the sensation and memories caused by this story for children, which influenced the nights of the artist's childhood. The painting was created at a difficult time when memories and nightmares about the Devil's story came back to the surface: the terror of oblivion and the loss of memories, the fear of being forgotten by loved ones provoked a vision, a negative conception of the nights by the artist: terror and fear forced her to sleep in uncomfortable positions and with her hair gathered to cover them. Over the years, the situation has been resolved.

Infantile irrational fear is represented with cheerful splashes of color. The presence of a window alludes to the serenity acquired over the years, which in moments of crisis of already adult life gets lost and brings the mind back to difficult nights and nightmares.