MATtam 82

Manto Arte Temporanea | Temporary Art Manto
short exhibitions in found spaces

Sala Ex Mondadori | Palazzo Te | Mantua

Erica Garbin

Ricami, archivi sensibili

Sunday November 9th 2025
only between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM

My work unfolds through a process of daily observation and archiving of the landscape. Each form is the sedimentation of an experience – the trace of time that settles onto fabric, transforming it into a field of memory.
Embroidery becomes a form of visual writing, a recording device that moves between matter and structure, between instinct and the construction of language. I am drawn to what grows on the margins: spontaneous plants, neglected territories, places where nature reclaims space. These are adaptive forms, silent resistances that tell the story of a landscape in transformation. In my practice, embroidery subverts its ornamental function to become both an analytical and affective gesture – a mark that translates the landscape into weave and texture, a language that binds together fragments, absences,and layers.
Each stitch is an act of listening and translation. Each fabric a surface of trasformation. What emerges is not a repsentation but a sensitive archive – a tactile alphabet through which to read the world in a lateral, imperfect, and living way.

I am a visual artist and researcher, born in Udine in 1983 and currently based between Udine and Venice. After studying at IED in Turin, I graduated in Scenography from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and later obtained a Master’s Diploma in Painting from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts.
My transdisciplinary practice intertwines visual art, installation, and material research, with a focus on themes of nomadism, affective relationships with place, and fragmented forms of memory. I am currently pursuing a PhD at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, with a scholarship co-funded by TBA21–Academy (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), within the Open Space research program.

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