Foreste
di Filo
EXHIBITION
Federico de Lorentis
For the first edition of its collaboration with Corneliani, the fashion house commissioned the curator to create an ad hoc installation intervention to launch the first sustainable CIRCLE spring/summer 22 collections. Like any other industrial sector, fashion cannot exempt itself from environmental responsibility, which becomes an imminent urgency to which the entire economic production system must strive. The planet needs alternative futures and unprecedented scenarios, possible only by creating new propositional narratives.
The selected artist Federico de Lorentis (Galatina, 1994) presented Foreste di Filo, an immersive installation made exclusively with the use of discarded, expi- red textile company thread. Through collective word of mouth, the artist recovered more than 300km of cotton and silk thread, triggering a series of unprecedented relationships between the parent company and the entire production chain. The discovery of expired thread, never before used by the brand, testifies to the importance of sincere sustainable attitudes and proximity, playing with the thread’s am- biguous and malleable nature to trigger mechanisms of tactile seduction. The form and range of colours trigger an age-old curiosity that moves the hand and longs to touch cotton and silk filaments.