Exhibition period 10/10/25 - 8/11/25
An artist duo, whose projects bring together community-driven processes, site-specific research and materially driven experimentation tied to the timeless gestures of spinning and weaving.
Originally from Sydney in Australia and Brescia in North Italy, they now live and work on the small island of Sant’Antioco in Sardinia where they absorb the knowledge maintained by the master weaver Chiara Vigo. Working through colour, time and repetition their immersive practice includes gathering plants and producing dyes using traditional techniques, spinning different fibres with the ‘fuso’ and using found and collected materials to build their looms and tools.
They expand on the radical and localised aspects of their practice by engaging with rural, regional or remote contexts, contemporary art institutions and networks, and various festivals to produce immersive experiences that make visible a knowledge-in-action whilst engaging and contributing to the life of the communities that host them. Using a mix of live-art, installation and participatory or co-creative exchange, they explore how the fundamental acts of ancient weaving create connections between various cultures, times and spaces, through works that unfold within a complex entanglement of ecology, culture, landscape, memory and sustainment.
They produce interactive workshops, expanded tapestries, site-specific interventions, delirious archives, imaginary landscapes and crafted objects-spaces. Their combined presence enacts and embodies different forms of knowing and unknowing through the transformation of elemental material, sound, visions, symbols and everyday objects. In this way weaving operates as a material space of care, as well as a means of developing a shared territory of continuity, exchange and encounter that can rewild and regenerate a deep time connection with the natural world, different energies and forces.
Multi-format performance, crafted artifacts, video and live-art presentation. NAHR AiR Interdependence Between Species, 2021.
Thirty hand-woven bags in sheep wool from various local breeds hand-spun and dyed by the artists using natural cold dyes, sheep bells, Sardinian cane and linen for Gorizia Design Week, 2025.
Karl Logge & Marta Romani
With backgrounds in animation, design, live-art and installation, Marta Romani and Karl Logge live and work on the island of Sant’Antioco in Sardinia, Italy. Their joint practice spans multi-modal forms of artistic production, art education, workshop-driven encounters and academic research.
They have worked with institutions such as the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Auckland Triennial, CRACK Festival, Boom Festival, the New European Bauhaus Festival, IMMA Earth Rising Festival, Makers United Festival, Brisbane Museum, The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, MART Gallery and UNIDEE at Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistolleto.
Adopting a nomadic approach, they engage diverse territories, local communities and spaces of culture memory through site-specific projects and artist residencies including the Verpejos Shepherding in Lithuania, Georges River AiR at Carss Park Cottage in Australia, the Leeward Rural Residency at Cowhouse Studios in Ireland, the OZCO Tokyo Residency in Japan, and a series of projects across Italy including the Viadellafucina Twinning Residency, Sambuca Welcoming commission, NAHR Interdependence between species program at Nature Art and Habitat Residency, and the Borgo Degli Artisti AiR.
They have also produced a series of self-initiated solo shows that includes ‘Nassa chiama Nassa’ (Monasterolo, Italy, 2021), ‘Net calls Net, Weave calls Wave’ (Ironbark Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2023) & ‘Il Labirinto nel Mare’ (Museo Antonio Corda Arti e Mestieri Antichi della Sardegna, Arbus, Sardegna, 2024) and in 2025 will be producing new projects and works for GO! Design Week, Culture Moves Europe in Serbia, the Chemnitz 2025 European Capital of Culture and the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Exhibition Residency.
