Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories
Villa Bernasconi•Jan 21, 2026 — Mar 22, 2026
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Populated by fragile, intangible, and unsettling presences, Villa Bernasconi presents Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories. In continu-ation of the curatorial project Stitches, initiated in 2020 around contemporary textile practices, the exhi-bition explores the connections between textiles and haunting.
The project reveals the spectral potentialities of fabric: veiling, transparency, imprinting. By unveiling what cannot—or should not—be seen, textiles reveal invisible and intangible forms. The material becomes a surface for projection, a tactile medium im-bued with memory. The exhibition focuses on what is transmitted beneath the surface: family and cultural legacies, repressed and collective fears, fragmentary, intimate memories. It questions how domestic spaces, ordinary gestures, social structures, and forgotten stories can become sites of haunting—traces of memory that elude rational understanding.…
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Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories
Villa Bernasconi•Jan 21, 2026 — Mar 22, 2026
Press Release
Populated by fragile, intangible, and unsettling presences, Villa Bernasconi presents Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories. In continu-ation of the curatorial project Stitches, initiated in 2020 around contemporary textile practices, the exhi-bition explores the connections between textiles and haunting.
The project reveals the spectral potentialities of fabric: veiling, transparency, imprinting. By unveiling what cannot—or should not—be seen, textiles reveal invisible and intangible forms. The material becomes a surface for projection, a tactile medium im-bued with memory. The exhibition focuses on what is transmitted beneath the surface: family and cultural legacies, repressed and collective fears, fragmentary, intimate memories. It questions how domestic spaces, ordinary gestures, social structures, and forgotten stories can become sites of haunting—traces of memory that elude rational understanding.…

















































































