The Finnish artist, Kaarina Kaikkonen takes used clothing from the mountains of rags residing in Prato’s hangars a material for her public installations. They are hung like withered flags from windows, placed like posters on the stone walls in Prato, draped on cords strung between city walls, or like garlands over stagnant water, aligned with stairs climbing upwards, ragged and miserably empty. Some are vividly coloured, connected at the sleeves, appearing to hold hands, or arranged like streamers around a courtyard, lined up like soldiers on a line tensely held between two windows, and hugging trees in a snowy clearing. These consumed, crumpled garments, deformed from use, have been transformed into decorative artifices originating from an unusual and preordained accumulation, and stand as pathetic testimony of a difficult daily life without holidays.