Texĕre - Come Fili Nell’insieme

Texĕre - Come Fili Nell’insieme

A community project developed by artist Silvia Scaringella curated by the director of the Segesta Archaeological Park, Luigi Biondo, with the collaboration of the Riso - Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palermo and the curatorship of the archaeological section by Hedvig Evegren and Monica de Cesare.

The exhibition explores the theme of weaving as a metaphor for human relations and universal coexistence, divided into three thematic sections, and is also realised thanks to the active participation of the community of Calatafimi Segesta through workshops by the artist - Roman by birth but Sicilian by adoption - organised with the Pro Loco and the Centro del Riuso dei Tessuti. 

The exhibition route winds its way through the Antiquarium of the Park with the work Pondus, a vertical loom with 2,500 small terracotta weights in dialogue with the ancient finds in the archaeological section, the Acropolis with the installation Idrissa.

Under the same sky, composed of six marble steles reproducing the healds of an enormous loom from which unravel coloured ropes and threads that run across the landscape to meet forming a portal joining the ruins of the medieval Church and the Mosque, and the Doric Temple with the temporary installation Texĕre, presented on the occasion of the first anniversary of the devastating fire that destroyed much of the Park's Mediterranean scrub on the night of 24 July 2023, where three thousand fabric tesserae made from clothes find new life. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the value of collaboration and sharing, highlighting the beauty of differences and the strength of unity. Through the art of weaving, the exhibition proposes a vision of a world where each individual is an essential thread in the great fabric of life, celebrating our common humanity and spirituality.

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