Eternal desire

There is a thread that runs through time, subtle and invisible, yet tenacious. A thread that resists the wear and tear of the seasons, that defies falls and fractures, that continues to weave the deep fabric of the human soul. It is the thread of desire: ancient, tireless, mysterious.
The 2025 edition of Miniartextil takes shape around this fundamental node, choosing to explore the theme of “Eternal Desire”, making it a title that is both evocative and passionate.
Desire is the instinct to seek, to reach beyond the visible. It is movement, tension, vibration. It knows no peace, yet it brings with it a very high form of beauty. It exists in every heartbeat, in every wait, in every whispered dream. It manifests itself in the need to love and be loved, in the caressing gesture, in the searching gaze, in the word that is missing and in the one that saves.
Here, desire is not consumption, it is not possession: it is a living presence, light that pierces the shadows, the memory of what makes us human.
Through their textile works, artists are called upon to investigate this primal force that dwells within us: a creative energy that pulses beneath the surface, shaping bonds, generating form, filling the void.
Desire, eternal, is never identical to itself. It can be sweet or painful, it can arise from lack or hope, it can be expressed in an embrace or in an absence. But in all its forms, it carries with it a fragment of truth, a tension towards the other, an impulse to overcome the boundaries of the self.
In the intertwined fibres, in the knotted threads, in the repeated gestures of the hand that creates, desire takes shape, becomes visible. It is the artist's breath that becomes matter, the echo of an emotion seeking form.
'Eternal Desire' is therefore a journey into intimacy, but also into the universality of feeling. It is a call to recognise in the small details – in a knot, in a weave, in a passage of light – the greatness of the desire that has always accompanied us.
Each work in this edition is a fragment of a larger story: a declaration of love, a suspended thought, an open question. Because if there is something that keeps us united, beyond any distance, it is this fragile and wonderful tension towards something – or someone – that we do not yet fully know.
Desire does not fade, it does not wear out. It transforms, changes, returns. And it is precisely in this persistence that its eternity lies.