SOME TIME FOR ME
by SARA BASTA
Sara Basta’s intervention for Maranola was born in continuity and dialogue with the one made by Daniele Spanò entitled Orizzonte Domestico (Domestic Horizon). After an initial period of observation and acquaintance with the inhabitants, the artist returned to residence and helped also by some women of the village, she embroidered the cloths previously dyed by Daniele Spanò, to add other layers and meanings to her reflection on the domestic horizon.
The artist got in touch with the women she met because they have in common a familiarity with sewing, some by profession, others by passion, and from her relationship with them she brought out some of the phrases and images that she will embroider on the two cloths that make up Daniele’s installation and on other cloths to be hung in the streets of the village.
“It has been almost 100 years since Virginia Woolf wrote her reflections on the relationship between women and writing encapsulated in “A Room of One’s Own.” At a distance of time what I feel and seem to share with the people I met in Maranola is no longer that need for a space in which to devote oneself to one’s passions. The space has been conquered, but what remains is the urgency of time. It is still difficult to take time for oneself, in which not to be overwhelmed by what is not always essential. Sewing, embroidering together on sheets and cloth at home is an attempt to take some time, to be together in a slow, inoperative, unproductive time, in which to take care of oneself by widening one’s gaze, one’s domestic horizon, in relationship. ” Sara Basta
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