| by Alessandra Tempesti | For several years, Barbara Prenka’s research has focused on an object that accompanies our lives, stays in contact with the body, envelops it, and protects it: the blanket, understood as a metaphor for care, essential in contexts of social marginalization, migration, conflict, and vulnerability. These are experiences Prenka herself lived through when, in 1998, she was forced to leave Kosovo, her country of origin, during the war. Her quilts, however, belong to a different dimension: they have no practical function, they do not interact with bodies, and they do not provide warmth. Hybrid objects suspended between painting and sculpture, they exist in an intermediate space…