Artist Profile: Anita Mirabito and the Immersive "Through the Weave"
For the current edition of OBSERVER, we feature Anita Mirabito’s Through the Weave(2025), a compelling site-specific installation that recontextualises the potential of fibre art within an architectural framework.
The work, measuring 180 by 120 centimeters, utilises traditional crochet techniques with industrial-grade wool in graduated pink hues. The installation embeds LED components within the open weave, creating an animated dialogue between the soft, domestic material and the rigid, textured brick wall behind it. The resulting light patterns transform the space into an immersive, sensory environment that demands physical engagement from the viewer.
Tensions: Intimacy and Monumentality
Anita's practice explores the critical tension between traditionally domestic craft and contemporary public engagement. By placing a hand-bound medium in direct conversation with the gallery’s architecture and light, she investigates the boundary between private ritual and monumental scale.
The installation uses light not just for illumination, but as a kinetic element that passes through the structure “like breath,” activating the material and transforming a simple wall into a focal point for sensory reflection. Through the Weave ultimately champions contemporary art’s capacity to reveal the subtle, yet powerful, connections that define our experience of material, memory, and spatial relations.
Exhibition Dates: On view until 30 November 2025
Location:
Romulus Folio Gallery, The Gladstone
55 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, 3205.
Hours:
Wednesday–Friday: 12 pm – 7 pm
Saturday–Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm
Appointments available upon request.