Curatorial Statement: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories - Villa Bernasconi

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.

In dialogue with the architecture of Villa Bernasconi, the house—in- habited by artworks - becomes a subject in itself. Throughout the rooms, visitors are invited to navigate among voices, absences, ap-paritions, and suspended narratives. Textile and sculptural installa- tions, videos, performances, and sound pieces together create a sensory experience that oscillates between popular and historical references, critical perspectives, and raw emotions.

Here, the ghost is seen as a messenger between worlds, a bearer of hidden stories, and a guardian of memory in the face of oblivion. A magical, spiritual, and fictional figure, it occupies an ambivalent place in everyday life, intimacy, and the world of entertainment. With tenderness, mischief, or fear, the works in the exhibition summon the presence of these spectral, imaginary, and familiar beings: these “others” with whom we coexist, who follow and accompany us.

Why this exhibition matters

At Villa Bernasconi, fabric becomes more than material. It operates as a carrier of memory, absence, and inherited stories. For Catapult – Munchies Art Club, the exhibition matters because it shows how everyday materials can hold complex emotional and cultural residues that resist simple explanation.

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