Situated between writing and picture-making, the work of US artist Leslie Hirst subtly challenges the ways that we read marks as language. As a skilled draftsperson, painter, and type designer, she works with a variety of media and found objects, then deconstructs, reconfigures, and embellishes these elements to reflect the complexity of our interconnected world. Following her first visit to Burano in 2005, Hirst was inspired to create compositions that fuse words with lace designs. As a formal metaphor for verbal expression, she calls upon the attributes of lace to describe content (material fabric) and context (open spaces) through the movement of writing (the stitch).
Hirst’s visual language is built from fragments, discorde shapes, and accidental forms excavated from her vast personal archive of antique handwritten letters and photographs of graffiti.
Dates: from May 30 to August 1st
Opening hours: from April 1st to October 31st
10 am – 6 pm (ticket office 10 am – 5:30 pm)
Closed on Monday
Tickets: Admission is allowed with times and tickets of the museum >> http://museomerletto.visitmuve.it/en/pianifica-la-tua-visita/tickets/
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