Dis/Enchanted Interiors at MAD - Murate Art District

Anna Perach creates environments inhabited by sculptures using the weaving technique known as tufting, often employed in carpet-making. Her wearable sculptures exist in the space between object and “skin” and are activated through choreographed performances accompanied by sound. 

The carpet, conceived as a domestic symbol that has accompanied the artist’s journeys since the beginning of her career, becomes a catalyst for a series of reflections on cultural migration.

The work presented at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology consists of postcards reproducing photographs of the interiors of Perach’s childhood home. In relation to the context of the Museum of Anthropology and the nature of its collections, the artist deliberately chooses not to integrate the work into the exhibition path. Positioned at the entrance, it remains in a liminal space, on the threshold, without becoming part of the collection: a conscious decision intended to avoid any form of exoticization, which the artist perceives as problematic.

Placed outside the museum galleries, Perach’s intervention thus takes shape as a critical distancing from the colonial framework that has historically informed Western museological practices, as well as the gaze directed toward the private sphere.