Maria Lai (1919–2013) grew up in Ulassai, a small village in the Barbagia region of Sardinia. Her practice drew on the island’s oral traditions and textiles in ways that had no real precedent in postwar Italian art. Lai’s Telai (loom-like wooden structures strung with thread), her sewn canvases, her artist’s books stitched together by hand—all of it sat outside the categories recognized by Italian institutions, which partly explains why she flew under the radar for so long. This major retrospective, curated by Mónica Amor and Carlos Basualdo, sets out to correct the record by filling archival gaps, revising chronologies, and presenting Lai’s practice as the sophisticated and singular body of work it always was. —Elena Clavarino