Queer, Folks.

Queer, Folks analyses the relationship between queerness and Sardinian rural geographies, exploring how the performativity of folk tradition produces norms and illusions of consistency. Going against what is traditionally considered immutable, Marco Loi gives shape to a series of hand-woven tapestries using the local ‘a pibiones’ craft technique. Motifs and symbols firmly rooted in the agro-pastoral imaginary become means to explore how queerness can be expressed through a restaging of the folk grammar, with its popular transgressive beasts and monsters. The tapestries are conceived as symbolic objects that, having escaped the domestic space, become part of a seemingly unplanned ‘rug beating’ ritual, that arouses an unforeseen moment of celebration and queer reclamation of the rural environment.