Sidival Fila: Weaving Reality

Lower Gallery
July 20 - August 17, 2022

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We are pleased to exhibit Sidival Fila: Weaving Reality, a selection of recent work by artist and Franciscan monk Sidival Fila. Our exhibition includes works from Fila’s monochromatic Metafora series, which the artist creates through the meditative act of sewing.

Fila was recently appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon alongside Peter Zumthor and Gianfranco Rosi, among others. Fila also opened Sidoni, a major exhibition of eight new works at the Baptistery of Saint John Lateran in June.

"[Fila's work is] deeply spiritual without delivering any theological message, demanding at the same time an extraordinary manual skill, pertaining to asceticism but leading to jubilation."
Bruno Racine, Director, Palazzo Grassi

“It is a rational gesture, a positive choice of re-threading, weaving reality back together. It stands as a resume of my affectivity: the care for the matter, the world, finding ways to give new meaning to things.”
Sidival Fila