Vestimenti

Vestimenti is an exhibition bringing together works made by Sissi over the past twenty years, highlighting the centrality of her interest in the human body—not only as a vessel, but as a means of being in the world through its ever-changing skin. This macro-universe has been constructed to foreground a key element of the artist’s poetics and to introduce audiences to her daily practice, in which she cuts fabric directly on her own body to sew a new dress/skin for the present day. She does so in order to enter the world emotionally, supported by garments that extend her body and that she wishes to share with others.

The exhibition unfolds across multiple levels of perception through a large-scale installation project conceived for the exhibition spaces of Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna. Across the rooms, a visual grammar develops on iron structures: an organic, abstract mode of thinking that also incorporates, as an additional apparatus, the performance Abitare l’altro and the permanent installation Corpo libero