Palo Gallery (New York) is pleased to present Memoir of a Needle, an exhibition of new textile works by Italian artist, Roberto Maria Lino, from 26 June to 8 August 2025. Featuring 14 new artworks and an installation, this exhibition marks a pivotal moment in Lino’s career as his debut exhibition in the United States. This group of artworks includes pieces from three different series: Sutura, Spolia, and Red Monochromes, the latter two which are being presented for the first time.
The exhibition title captures the deeply autobiographical and intimate nature of Lino’s practice– one that unfolds along the threads of his own lived experience. Focusing on the human body and its fraught entanglements with medicine and industry, Lino weaves multimedia textiles on canvas that probe themes of memory, tradition, and trauma. From the age of four, he accompanied his father, a heart surgeon in Naples, into the operating theater, where he routinely witnessed open-heart surgeries. This extraordinary exposure forged a unique relationship to the body’s fragility and the surgical interventions that sustain it, inciting themes that permeate these warm, visceral new bodies of work.