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Stadtgalerie Bern•Aug 21, 2026 — Oct 03, 2026
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Eva de Souza’s artistic-activist practice is rooted in community-oriented textile experimentation and a longstanding engagement with social justice, anti-racism, and feminism. Using the craft techniques of embroidery and sewing, she interweaves personal stories with social events, and media impressions with names and slogans. The result is a series of striking textile image-worlds. Embroidery also serves as a resistant form of processing experiences such as migration, police violence, and discrimination. Making these issues visible, in turn, creates opportunities for exchange and mutual empowerment across different communities.
With tecidos que curam, Stadtgalerie Bern presents the first institutional solo exhibition by the Swiss-Brazilian artist. Translated from Portuguese, the exhibition title means “fabric that heals” or “healing textiles.” Its ambiguity refers both to social structures and to the fabrics and cloths that play a central role in Eva de Souza’s artistic practice and…
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tecidos que curam
Stadtgalerie Bern•Aug 21, 2026 — Oct 03, 2026
Press Release
Eva de Souza’s artistic-activist practice is rooted in community-oriented textile experimentation and a longstanding engagement with social justice, anti-racism, and feminism. Using the craft techniques of embroidery and sewing, she interweaves personal stories with social events, and media impressions with names and slogans. The result is a series of striking textile image-worlds. Embroidery also serves as a resistant form of processing experiences such as migration, police violence, and discrimination. Making these issues visible, in turn, creates opportunities for exchange and mutual empowerment across different communities.
With tecidos que curam, Stadtgalerie Bern presents the first institutional solo exhibition by the Swiss-Brazilian artist. Translated from Portuguese, the exhibition title means “fabric that heals” or “healing textiles.” Its ambiguity refers both to social structures and to the fabrics and cloths that play a central role in Eva de Souza’s artistic practice and…











































































