Fusa

FUSA is the outcome of a month-long artistic residency at Officina, Montefollonico. The project takes its point of departure from the history of the village, whose ancient name, Monte a Follonica, refers to the Fullones—workers engaged in the production and dyeing of cloth.
In dialogue with this material history, local residents were invited to contribute unused textile objects—bed linens, garments, tablecloths, and domestic fabrics—which were transformed into a series of mobile sculptural forms. Positioned between body and architecture, these non-gendered forms function as vessels, shelters, and embodied archives, carrying traces of intimacy, memory, and collective experience. Suggestive of cocoons or protective structures, they propose the past not as something fixed, but as a site of latent transformation from which new narratives may emerge.
Activated through performance, the sculptures will come to life in a procession starting from the three gates of Montefollonico before gathering for an exhibition in the village centre. Accompanied by vocal gestures, the procession unfolds as a shared sonic and visual composition, where voices, movement, and textile forms become interwoven.