16 Feb TUTTE!
TUTTE!
Opening on Saturday, March 3 at 05:00 p.m.
works by: Clara Brasca, Lea Contestabile, Marina Gasparini, Barbara Giorgis, Angela Occhipinti, Paola Paganelli, Carolina Paltrinieri, Sima Shafti, Ketty Tagliatti, Betty Zanelli
curator: Valeria Tassinari MAGI’900
March 3 – April 8 2018
Free admission
TUTTE! is an exhibition opening on March 3 the Open Box space in the MAGI’900 Museum in which ten women artists of different generations and the curator compare stories in a sort of “choir” of words and visions, in which each participant’s testimony introduces other stories, near or far away.
The exhibition is being held on to mark the occasion of March 8, underlining that International Women’s Day is not a day for celebrating, but a day of memory included in the calendar of our collective history to make sure we do not forget about the problems associated with being female. Every woman has her own special days at various different times of year, but March 8 is every woman’s day, representing a shared condition of ongoing exposure to conditioning and abuse. A state of things that is hard to change, specific to women everywhere, though with different degrees of intensity and in different contexts.
Originating as a project focusing on the stories we are all used to hearing, reading, or experiencing for ourselves, in ten works which are technically very different from one another, the exhibition somehow manages to become a choir of voices focusing on the themes of our strength, perseverance, purity, faith, illusion, defence of our happiness and – inevitably – on gender violence: a universal phenomenon, revealing how pervasive and many-faced it is, starting with the minor abuses which insinuate their way into our daily lives so subtly as to become almost unrecognisable, and continuing up to the most severe forms, which have still not been fought enough.
Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, sewing and weaving, objects kept like relics of lives that cannot be given enough importance. Painful words that become images, and precious images made up of words, words that every woman ends up saying, hearing or seeing. A choral testimony with a great aesthetic impact, raising a single voice asking women’s art to display all its ability to be sincere, to avoid becoming habitual, to state facts and feelings in a lucid, delicate, profound way rarely found in public narration.