INSIDE OUTSIDE II by Allegra Hicks

A monumental 63 square meter tapestry of painted linen embroidered with thousands of Murano glass beads is the work that artist Allegra Hicks, known for her signature textiles and embroideries, developed for an exhibition at the Magazzino of Palazzo Polignac in Venice, one of the most important early Renaissance buildings in the city, on the occasion of Italian Glass Week in 2022. This spectacular piece will now occupy a whole room at ICI London. “This piece explores the ephemeral boundaries between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’,” says Allegra Hicks, “between concepts of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’. In other words, it is a reflection on the flux of life.”