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Caring for Clothes is Art: From MAAT to the Ironing Shop in Lisbon

Caring for Clothes is Art: From MAAT to the Ironing Shop in Lisbon

There are exhibitions that make us look at the mundane with fresh eyes. That’s what happened when we visited Anna Maria Maiolino’s retrospective at MAAT – Museum of A...

There are exhibitions that make us look at the mundane with fresh eyes. That’s what happened when we visited Anna Maria Maiolino’s retrospective at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. The Brazilian-born, Italy-based artist transforms everyday gestures and humble materials – clay, paper, thread – into works that force us to pause. Rolling, crumpling, cutting, folding. Everything becomes sculpture, everything gains meaning.

At IroningHero, we feel right at home. We too take the banal – u...

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