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BETTY SALLUCE. CARTOGRAPHY OF RELATION
| by Sabino Maria Frassà | Every artist inherits a form of memory. For some, it takes the shape of a technique; for others, of a place, a language, or a tradition. For Betty Salluce (an artist born in Matera in 1992), memory is never simply an archive of the past, but rather a process of sedimentation: the way experiences, images, gestures, and landscapes continue to work within us over time, until they find a shared form. It is within this slow transformation that the thread emerges as a defining element of her practice. Not as a decorative choice, nor as the revival of a craft tradition, but as a…
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THE STORY OF FULVIO MORELLA’S STELLAR BRAILLE: A CURTAIN ONTO INFINITY
| by Sabino Maria Frassà | In the poetics of Fulvio Morella, embroidery does not illustrate, does not decorate, does not embellish: it writes. It writes for those who do not see with their eyes but continue to see with the heart, within that ‘invisible to the eye’ from The Little Prince, which has accompanied the artist since childhood as a silent truth, never rhetorical, rooted in an emotional education to care for the other. Above all, it writes to bring closer, to include without declaring it, to offer without imposing. The gesture of Fulvio Morella does not arise as a critical statement nor as an ideological stance: it emerges…
