FRAGILE STORIES
FRAGILE STORIES
Mandy Bonnell e Déirdre Kelly
Burano Lace Museum
14 June 2024 – 8 January 2025
Museo del Merletto Piazza Galuppi 187, 30142 Burano
On the occasion of the 2024 Lace Biennale del Merletto in Burano.
F R A G I L E S T O R I E S works by Mandy Bonnell and Déirdre Kelly consisting of beautiful tracery cut out of fine papers and maps using the aesthetics of lace, expresses the desire to embrace and participate in the rich creativity of the female hand, always attuned to the delicate rhythms of nature, and often – like Lace itself – far stronger than it seems. In engaging with the traditions of the Burano lacemakers, Mandy Bonnell and Déirdre Kelly have found ways to recount interlaced stories and evoke journeys by superimposing, new techniques on antique crafts. Bonnell and Kelly are united in the joy of making and the collective energy of women’s work, through translations, interpretations, and reiterations of the rich collection of lace drawings preserved in the archives of the Palazzo Mocenigo Museum and the collection of the Lace Museum in Burano.
F R A G I L E S T O R I E S presents a series of works embodied in the detailed complexity derived from nature, prints, drawings and artists’ books, evoking absences and presences, alluding to the perfection of interlaced threads. A conversation with the lace makers of the past, touching on issues of fragility and durability, results in a beautiful tracery cut out of fine papers and geographical maps using the aesthetic language of lace.
Venetian lace-making as a traditional female craft and economic activity has become the embodiment of the social and cultural heritage of the islands of Venice. The artists Mandy Bonnell and Déirdre Kelly pay homage to this in F R A G I L E S T O R I E S, seeking to give an enduring voice to this cultural memory
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