The exhibition “Laura Marsh and Inés Raiteri: Labyrinth of Thread” is on view at Dot Fiftyone Gallery at 7275 NE 4th Avenue, Miami, Florida, through Saturday, August 30, 2025. With this exhibition, curated by Saul Ostrow, Florida-based artist Laura Marsh and Argentina’s Inés Raiteri extend their artistic “conversation” and collaboration to the community of Miami Springs. Here are excerpts from a review by Miguel Sirgado (Artburst Miami, 22 July 2025): “Laura Marsh and Inés Raiteri Threaded Together at Dot Fiftyone Gallery.” Sirgado writes that “Labyrinth of Thread” brings together two artists whose textile works explore embroidery as a collective act, fabric as language, and art as care.
In a white-walled gallery in the heart of Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, thread does more than sew fabric—it stitches memory, language, and art as a form of care.
That’s the premise behind “Laura Marsh and Inés Raiteri: Labyrinth of Thread” at Dot Fiftyone Gallery featuring the distinct yet deeply intertwined textile works of Binghamton, N.Y.,-born, Miami-based Laura Marsh and Argentina’s Inés Raiteri. Though shaped by different geographies and generations, both artists converge around embroidery as a collective act, fabric as symbolic language, and art as a form of care.
Curated by Saul Ostrow, a critic, editor, and curator currently based in New York City, three large-scale textile pieces demand attention. Two are collaborative—one initiated by Marsh and finished by Raiteri, and one in the opposite direction. The third, a communal canvas, was started in Argentina and found new life in Miami Springs, where Marsh leads weekly embroidery sessions with older adults.
“When Alfredo Guzmán (director of Dot Fiftyone Gallery) brought me the pieces from Inés’s studio—one nearly finished, one blank, and a communal canvas—I felt I had to respond through making,” says Marsh. “I dove into the community textile, which became the heart of the show and is still open to new interventions. For months, I stitched it with students at the Miami Springs Adult Center. Every week they’d add an image, a memory, a symbol from their lives.”
That workshop, says Marsh, “wasn’t just a teaching space—it became a circle of listening, affection, and intergenerational exchange.” One participant embroidered a bird that had started appearing in her backyard after her niece passed away. Another participant, named Luceli, added a small bird before she died. “I wrote a poem in her honor,” says Marsh, adding that “she was a survivor of domestic violence, gifted in watercolor and embroidery. Her presence is still there. Every thread is a memory. Every stitch, a story told by hand.”
Textiles, historically dismissed as decorative or domestic, take on new meaning here. “Viewers sometimes expect something soft, minor, domestic,” according to Marsh. “But here, thread is charged with symbolic force and layered with personal and collective histories.”
For Ostrow, this transformation is emblematic of textile art’s current status. “Today, textile art occupies an insurgent—almost subversive—position. It plays an active role in shaping discourses of materiality, labor, decolonization, and traditional hierarchies. It’s a site of productive tension that reflects broader shifts in contemporary culture.” [. . .]
For full review, see https://www.artburstmiami.com/visual_arts/laura-marsh-and-ines-raiteri-threaded-together-at-dot-fiftyone-gallery
For more information on the exhibition, see https://dotfiftyone.com/ or follow up via (305) 573-9994
For more on Miguel Sirgado, see https://adnamerica.com/staff/miguel-sirgado and https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-sirgado-52878779/
The exhibition “Laura Marsh and Inés Raiteri: Labyrinth of Thread” is on view at Dot Fiftyone Gallery at 7275 NE 4th Avenue, Miami, Florida, through Saturday, August 30, 2025. With this exhibition, curated by Saul Ostrow, Florida-based artist Laura Marsh and Argentina’s Inés Raiteri extend their artistic “conversation” and collaboration to the community of Miami
