Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Maria Laura Belisario
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 57-65 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2023oa16416
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This contribution emphasizes the intertwining of textile art and autobiographical narration as a tool to bring to light and re-define the stories that the are unknowingly "stitched on" the individual since birth (Mancino, 2021) and which refer to an environment that is not only physical, but also related to family, society and culture. In particular, the article references the works of Giovanna Del Grande, fiber artist and member of the "Trame educative" Research Group of Bicocca University. She uses the textile metaphor in pedagogical-training contexts to promote and enhance self-narration in adult subjects, by allowing people to give voice and, at the same time, new life to their own textile archive: fabrics and clothing stored in their wardrobe and no longer used. After illustrating the way in which Del Grande invites, during her workshops, to obtain fabrics from these textile archives which can be given new shape and new life through needle, thread and words, the article focuses on the project "Pelle 2", which deals with the creation of a "narrative tunic", customizable with images, decorations and words that make it a real "textile autobiography" and which the fiber artist plans to create soon with the inmates employed in the tailoring of the prison of Pozzuoli.
Keywords: ; Textile art; Autobiography; Narrating clothes
Maria Laura Belisario, Dar voce ai tessuti. Tagliare, scucire e ricucire le storie di cui siamo fatti in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2023, pp 57-65, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2023oa16416