Susanna Costantini: Hand-Woven textile art

Susanna Costantini’s artistic practice merges sociological roots with a search for an analogical language, reconnecting with authentic human experience beyond digital codification. For over a decade, she has explored hand-weaving as a form of "writing": a stream of consciousness shaped by the binary intersection of warp and weft. Inspired by Tim Ingold and Anni Albers, Costantini views the loom’s limits as a space for freedom. Each fabric is an inner landscape or emotional map capturing the memory of hands. Her research includes: Spigolature, where recycled yarns becomes narrative; Terrae, imaginary lunar cartographies; and Flags, symbolic spaces inviting personal interpretation. Based in Abruzzo, her work reflects the rhythms of the Apennines and the Adriatic Costantini bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design. Using natural yarns and local wool, she works on four-shaft or nomadic looms. This dance of threads is an act of resistance and innovation: a way to inhabit the present and give substance to the abstract.