Seta is the exhibition curated by RARE and designed to inaugurate the exhibition space inside the Filanda, which opens to the public on 16 May and continues until September.
The itinerary of photographs offers an immersive experience, where the projection of historical images, depicting the old factory, between past and present, focuses on work and the role of women.
Memory is the leitmotif of the exhibition, the dreamlike and historical dimensions support the evocation of the era of the spinning mill, through the ephemeral light of the projections that render a suggestion of the toil and resilience of the silk workers.
At the centre of the exhibition, amidst the tales and songs of the spinners, the sound of silkworms eating leaves takes up both a detail that emerges in many memories belonging to women who worked there at the time, and the literary reference to Ernest Hemingway’s work Insomnia: the sensorial and conceptual component of the installation takes on an even more dramatic tone thanks to the blending of all the sounds in the space, through a hypnotic rhythm, which insinuates itself into the visitors’ perception, evoking the time, work and sacrifice of the women who animated the spinning mill.
To complete the exhibition, a number of performances have been devised together with Gli Impresari collective, and Federico Primavera. Il Lanternista is a site-specific performance which reconstructs a visual imagery inspired by the history of the spinning mill, through the use of images on glass projected with 19th-century devices. The performance Sound Comments introduces an acoustic element in which the sounds produced by the insects are transformed into a live track, elaborated by a musician. The effect is an overlap between the echo of the past and a contemporary experimentation that amplifies the theme of memory and transformation.




















