Resonance exhibition focuses on intergenerational exchange, listening as a method, and dialogue, featuring participants from 15 countries. @auroramolinafiberart
At Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, Dorsoduro 2525 / Fondamenta Rossa, Venice.
This project runs alongside the 61st Venice Biennale, titled In Minor Keys.
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When I photograph an artist, I don’t start with the camera. I start with them. Who they are when no one is watching. The subtle tension in their expression, the way they hold eye contact, the emotion they don’t immediately show.
Every detail becomes intentional.
But the most important element? Trust.
When the artist feels seen, the image becomes honest.
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These embroidered line drawings emerge from acts of witnessing. Reduced to a continuous black thread, the figures appear faceless and anonymous, embodying the invisibility imposed upon displaced communities, migrants, and those living within states of uncertainty. The simplicity of the line becomes deceptive; each contour carries the emotional weight of separation, waiting, endurance, and survival.
While many cultures revere elders as keepers of knowledge, contemporary society often renders them invisible, hidden from public life and disconnected from the rhythms of everyday community. Freedom to Age challenges this erasure by focusing on the lived realities, gestures, emotions, and narratives of elderly individuals rather than the distractions and fictions society creates around aging.
The Texture of Grief marks a shift in the practice of Aurora Molina — moving away from figuration and into the abstraction of emotion, memory, and time. Through weaving, tension becomes both material and language: visual, emotional, and spiritual.
Each fiber carries the rhythm of intrusive thoughts, fears, isolation, and vulnerability, interlacing positive and negative emotions into a surface charged with psychological intensity. The act of weaving becomes a confrontation with time itself — repetitive, meditative, and transformative.
“These are feelings and emotions that allow us to converge from a superficial dimension to a deeper emotional process,” Molina reflects. “The tension of the weaving becomes its own language, and you have to learn how to decipher it in relationship to your own experience.”
In these works, grief is not hidden. It is woven, unraveled, and reconstructed into a space of resilience and reflection.
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Aurora Molina unveils the psychological depth embedded within generations of needlework traditions historically dismissed as “low art.” In DECORATIVE, ornament is reclaimed not as excess, but as a profoundly human language — intimate, emotional, political, and deeply embodied.
In this work, softness becomes a form of resistance. Wool rises from its relegated domestic role to declare itself a carrier of history, memory, and the labor of unseen hands. Thread behaves like drawing, scar, and gesture simultaneously, weaving together personal and collective narratives.
This is not craft for craft’s sake. It is material as testimony — where decoration transforms into structure, vulnerability into power, and textile into a critical contemporary language.
Beyond Fibers examines textile beyond its material function, transforming thread, fabric, and fiber into vehicles for memory, politics, identity, and collective experience. Through sculpture, installation, embroidery, and socially engaged practices, the exhibition expands the language of fiber into a contemporary field where material becomes narrative and gesture becomes resistance.
The works challenge traditional hierarchies between craft and fine art while exploring themes of labor, migration, visibility, fragility, and connection. Fiber emerges not simply as medium, but as a living structure capable of carrying histories, emotions, and social tensions across generations and communities.
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