SYLVIA KOUVALI CROCIERE ESTIVE BY GUGLIELMO CASTELLI

When Guglielmo Castelli’s demons and puppets leap from canvas to
air in Crociere Estive, Sylvia Kouvali’s gallery is swallowed by their
haunted parade: patchwork, canvases and stitched relics form a shore
of memories where childhood traumas and secret games resurface as
slick, tarry myths.
The space, cool, cave-like, half-gallery, half-grandmother’s attic,
reorients summer’s gaudy promise into something darker and
intimate: swans on leashes, corseted messengers, and a Minotaur
pulled between the urge to break free and the strange comfort of being
trapped. Castelli’s work is at once exorcism and embrace, an
unleashed dark spirit nurtured by textile logic that makes you sift
through what the tide returns and feel how boundaries both wound and
hold.