Weaving is human explores the languages and cultures of weaving in an unprecedented dialogue between a selection of textile works from the museum's historical collections—some rarely or never before exhibited—and the works of artist Isabella Ducrot (Naples, 1931), who finds her inspiration and humanistic essence in textiles.
The artist was invited by the Museo delle Civiltà to explore, together with the institution's curators, the heritage of garments, accessories, ceremonial or everyday fabrics kept in the display cases and storage rooms. From prehistoric archaeology to Italian arts and folk traditions, and the systems of thought, symbolism, narratives, and rituals of African, American, Asian, and Oceanian cultures, the textile collections are among the most fascinating and simultaneously fragile of the Museo delle Civiltà, making them also the most rarely exhibited. The artist's perspective, who has engaged with textile cultures worldwide for decades, provided the museum an opportunity to be observed from the outside and discover countless points of connection between its heritage and the practice of an artist for whom fabric is not just a daily material but an ancient tool of expression and communication across epochs, territories, and cultures.
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