The Academy presents "NABA Textile Room", a project in collaboration with FAI – Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano: a collection of artefacts that convey the historical and cultural significance of silk in the practice of textile art through the use of digital printing and textile manipulation techniques, created by students from the Fashion Design Area. The ten works will be publicly displayed during the event “Seta. Sul filo di una storia” at Palazzo Moroni (Via Porta Dipinta 12, Bergamo) from Friday, May 10, to Sunday, May 12, 2024, and will remain on exhibit for one month from the date of the inauguration.
"NABA Textile Room": the project's origins
"NABA Textile Room" emerged from the desire to engage the contemporary languages of young fashion talents with the stories and decorative richness of the rooms of Palazzo Moroni, a seventeenth-century building entrusted to FAI in 2019, and a selection of archive fabrics from the Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio, a manual weaving mill of excellence in Florence. Under the curation of Giulia Paolina Secco Suardo (designer and NABA lecturer), Salvatore Averzano (NABA Textile Laboratory Supervisor), Martina Camillo (Textile Laboratory Assistant), and coordinated by Luca Belotti (Fashion Design Area Masters of Arts and Academic Masters Course Leader), Intissar Bouhi (NABA Fashion Design Academic Assistant), and Colomba Leddi (NABA Fashion Design Area Leader), the project committed students in a cultural, experimental, and laboratory reflection on the historical and cultural significance of silk in textile art practice. Along with the involved faculty, they undertook research, reading, and interpretation of the treasures of Palazzo Moroni's rooms, in dialogue with the riches of the Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio and combined with silk scrap samples from Taroni, one of the oldest weaving mills in Lombardy.
The students' diverse cultures and geographical origins, in relation to the location's artistic, furnishing, and decorative inspirations, facilitated the construction of a contemporary language of fabric, turning the textile medium into a true tool of personal and identity expression.
"NABA Textile Room": the students involved in the project
The NABA students from the Fashion Design Area involved in the project are Viktor Beloreshki, Begüm Erbayrak, Théo Clement Francois, Beatrice Mazza, Barbara Maria Medeiros, Alper Okcu, Dilara Ovet, Mara Salvetti, Yuchu Shen, Lorenzo Tomadini and Ioana Zinelli Olarescu.
"NABA Textile Room" for “Seta. Sul filo di una storia” the details
From Friday, May 10, to Sunday, May 12, from 10 AM to 6 PM
At Palazzo Moroni, via Porta Dipinta 12, Bergamo
Entrance with ticket via FAI website