Needle and thread: sewing is a recurring action for Eva Reguzzoni who uses it, contaminating it with drawing and painting, on paper, leaves and naturally on fabric, as in this latest work where the chaotic and proliferating mass of threads is organized into a defined shape, taking on prominence, to depict a spine, which has become a symbolic image on a precious procession banner. It is the display of a personal relic, the one we witness, in which the artist exhibits the backbone of his body: a gaze turned inward, on the edge of emotions in search of his own being in an inexhaustible introspective and self-analysis that results in a cathartic practice of self-care through the transformation of raw material. And so the bone structure also transubstantiates: it comes to life, becomes a trunk, recording the signs of emotional oscillations in its cortex while emotions become lymph, exuding outwards, green because they are impregnated with life force.
Nature, for Eva Reguzzoni, is a primary source of inspiration: she lives near a forest and observes the life cycle of the trees in which she is reflected as continuously developing bodily matter and spontaneous generative potential that is reborn with each seasonal cycle, an impulse that he feels inside himself and externalizes in his works. It is an identification between itself and nature which is realized in the ideal union of body and thought and from which the creative act is generated, which is never an external but an internal fact, which involves and modifies the self: as the philosopher Emanuele Coccia (The life of plants, 2021) “creating a form means crossing it, traveling through it with your whole being” because “imagining is always becoming what you imagine”.

Eva Reguzzoni (Gallarate (VA) 1965). She lives and works in Borgo Ticino (NO). She graduated from the State Art High School of Busto Arsizio (VA) and, subsequently, from the School of Industrial Applied Art of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She is a restorer and archaeological designer. Since 2009 she has been developing a personal artistic research investigating her own inner life through important introspective work, dissected by a gesture that alternates drawing, embroidery and ceramics, and which often finds her favorite modality in her installation. Her deeply intimate works are born from suggestions taken from moments of her life, moments which, experienced through emotional and sensorial experience, are imprinted in her memory as precious memories.