The pillow and the embroideries made with hair from For days and days lead the viewer into an intimate and silent atmosphere, of which one can only be spectators. The work instantly makes us think of slowness, a form of solitude in which gestures and thoughts are repeated. "Only and pensive the most deserted fields I measure with late and slow steps", said Petrarch in one of his most famous sonnets, and in this work, writing and embroidering are for the artist the ways in which thoughts about the existing are matured or the evil of living is undermined. But there is something subliminally therapeutic, even for the viewer: the painstaking accuracy of the work (the title alludes to the time of realization) and the fragility of the hair create an intriguing texture in which melancholy fades into the fog of memory and the fabric is it unfolds like a book fresh off the press and yet to be read. For days and days it is a work characterized by a hidden micro-narrative, in which the dilated executive aspect also tells the sensitivity, concentration - and patience - of female work. Just as Penelope defended herself from the unwelcome attention of suitors by undoing in the night what she wove in the day, in the same way Laura Pozzar creates a work in which she stages an order and a space that can only be known by careful observation, having the he shrewdness in deciphering and reading the dozens of writings (the same and different) embroidered by the artist's hand on the pillowcase. That pillow, if we look, could be the one we spent our last few nights with.
(Daniele Capra)

