Date 2024 Height (cm) 14 Length (cm) 9 Depth (cm) 2 Weight (g) 400 Materials and Techniques Hand printing and writing on paper, embroidery on pillowcase. Subject/Description “La Parola Libera” was created in the Rebibbia Women’s Prison with the inmates in the Maximum Security regime. Each participant received a notebook in which to write down thoughts, desires, aspirations and considerations. The artist then embroidered a phrase each one chose on a white pillowcase. The pillowcase represents the dreams that accompany us in life and that sometimes, along our path, are lost, forgotten or betrayed. The embroidery becomes a thread of thought and life, cancelling distances and differences—an exchange from the inside to the outside and vice versa, an opening to the future. The notebook collects the motto of the detainees, giving them identity and humanity. Archival Fund AtWork Bibliography Laura Mega, an artivist active on the international contemporary art scene, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and at the University of Image in Milan (a school on the five senses created by photographer Fabrizio Ferri). Her artistic practice focuses on the emancipation and evolution of human beings in terms of their uniqueness, individual and collective, with a view to developing more just, equitable, and respectful human societies for individuals and the environment. Through simple and contemporary language, she investigates emotional, social and political issues, where, at times, a subtle irony leaves the observer with the responsibility for a different key of reading and interpretation. Laura Mega’s work has been exhibited at international spaces and events, including Resobox Gallery (NYC), M55 Art Gallery (NYC), Endless Biennial (NYC), Ivy Brown Gallery (NYC), Sejong Museum of Art (Seoul), The Others Art Fair (Turin), MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), MADXI (Latina), Every Woman Biennial (London), Clio Art Fair (NYC), KOU Gallery (Rome), WTA – World Textile Art, Biennale Tessile, Museo del Tessile (Busto Arsizio), Larnaca Biennale (Cyprus), TRYST – International Art Fair, Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA, USA), QIPO Fair (Mexico City), Dakar Biennial (Dakar, Senegal), 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. Personal data Rome, Italy, 1973.