PATRON/ISE - TEXTILE ART FACTORY EXHIBITION

patron/ise reflects on the residency as a model of artistic production within today’s art system.
The exhibition, developed through six months of residency within the Textile Art Factory programme, engages with the dichotomy between what becomes visible in the artwork and what remains hidden within the dynamics and conditions of the creative process.

Taking shape in relation to Prato’s textile context and its factories, the exhibition looks at an art system that continues to produce while much of the labour that precedes and sustains it remains unseen: conversations, adaptations, emotional labour, exhaustion, endurance, and compromise.

The installations and sculptures on view speak about labour while also carrying traces of the labour that generated them. Buonanno addresses factory work, protest, disability, vulnerability, and endurance; Filipović and Bucur transform local remnants of production into narratives of migration, childhood, and memory; and Cipriani incorporates discarded machinery to reveal the hidden infrastructures of textile production.
Together, their works hold the tensions of the place in which they were made, the structures that enabled them, and the compromises that shaped them.

Curated by Ester Maria d’Avossa.
Artists: Lorena Bucur, Carmen Buonanno, Linda Ann Cipriani, Nikola Filipović

Opening: 14.07.2026, h 18:30
15.07 – 11.10.2026

Lottozero, Via Arno 10, Prato
Mon – Thu 10-18; Fri 10-16; Sat and Sun by appointment
T. 0574 22883 / info@lottozero.org

Textile Art Factory is a project by Lottozero, Museo del Tessuto and SC17, funded by the Regional Programme FSE+ Tuscany 2021–2027, under the Public Notice approved by D.D. n. 138/2024, and part of Giovanisì, the Tuscany Region’s initiative for youth autonomy.