New artist-in residence: Myrta Moser-Zulauf

Myrta Moser-Zulauf, Gwand, 2022, used discarded jeans, cotton, 110 x 181 cm

For years, Myrta Moser-Zulauf has been using second-hand fabrics as the primary material for her artistic research. Her work explores issues related to textile production, appropriation, and disposal, while questioning the use of raw materials and the historical and social dynamics behind their transformation. Fabric becomes a living trace: through its shapes, impurities, and imperfections, it reveals signs of previous use and reflects the overwhelming availability of materials in our contemporary world.

By transforming this everyday material, Moser-Zulauf challenges our habits of seeing and perceiving. Her work exposes tensions between surface and space — between the fabric that wraps the body and the gestures it shapes, and the intimate absence of the body itself, subtly revealed through folds and creases. Processes of dissolution and decomposition further evoke the surrounding environment and the ecological consequences of textile waste.

Her residency at Lottozero (April 14–27) is a research journey into fabric regeneration processes in Prato.