For Caterina Frongia, craftsmanship is not a practice of preservation but a language through which to speak about the present. Rooted in Sardinian weaving traditions while informed by contemporary visual culture, her work explores movement, migration and transformation as forces that continually reshape identities and knowledge. In this interview, Frongia reflects on the relationship between tradition and innovation, the nomadic nature of textiles, and the cultural landscape of Sardinia today.
Merike Estna represents Estonia at the 61st Venice Biennale with The House of Leaking Sky, a process-based project curated by Natalia Sielewicz. Transforming a former church and present-day community centre in Castello into an open studio, Estna develops a monumental painting throughout the Biennale, allowing visitors to witness the work as it comes into being. Conceived as a living, performative and social medium rather than a finished, auratic object, her painting moves between canvas, architecture and everyday life, questioning established hierarchies while bringing artistic labour into dialogue with motherhood, care and collective forms of making. Mara Sartore met Estna inside the pavilion to discuss the evolving work, the women artists who shaped it, and how living and painting in Venice have become inseparable parts of the project.
To mark the launch of the .ART Award, .ART founder Ulvi Kasimov shares his thoughts on the evolving role of documentation, digital identity, and artistic legacy. From the value of context to the importance of owning one's digital presence, he reflects on how artists can shape their practice in an increasingly digital world.
For Vetrina#16, Dmytrenko presented Intrico, a site-specific installation where the subconscious is compared to a dense forest. The thickness of the trees represents the complexity and depth of the human mind, while the creatures glancing from the bushes are incarnations of the emotional states, memories, and nightmares. They inhabit the space silently and steadily, existing in a parallel time and dimension, not wishing to be discovered. The viewer can only peek carefully, without invading that balanced and untouched world.
In this conversation, Frontini reflects on unraveling as both process and metaphor, the subconscious as a generative space for images, and the role of imagination as refuge, resistance, and renewal in a time marked by unrest.
