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Essere Donna: Il Corpo Come Strumento di Creazione e Atto di Ribellione
Galleria Fumagalli presents the exhibition Essere Donna. Il corpo come strumento di creazione e atto di ribellione [Being a Woman. The body as a medium of creation and an act of rebellion].
Inspired by the words of Oriana Fallaci, curators Maria Vittoria Baravelli and Annamaria Maggi choose to exhibit works by artists such as Marina Abramovi膰, Sang A Han, Annette Messager, Shirin Neshat, Gina Pane, and explain: 芦being a woman is not a gender, but a way of seeing the world, of experiencing conquest and loss on one鈥檚 own body禄.
Shirin Neshat, Marina Abramovi膰, Sang A Han, Annette Messager, Gina Pane: each of them has converted their body into a battlefield where they can experiment with everything, where politics, life, blood, madness and fantasy intertwine in a continuous fight against conventions.
Being a woman, as Oriana Fallaci writes, 芦is an adventure that requires such courage, a challenge that never ends禄.
Throughout history, women鈥檚 bodies have been a contested territory, a symbol to be controlled, an idea to be regulated. These artists, rebellious and disobedient, have challenged the Manichaeism of the canon, breaking the cages imposed by patriarchy and tradition. They have refused to be passive objects and have transformed themselves into active subjects, using their bodies as a medium of resistance and expression, redefining what it means to be a woman.
Their works are like 鈥渁 loaded rifle鈥� as we learn from Emily Dickinson, ready to put us against the wall and make us rethink what we thought we knew. Fallaci writes: 芦To be a woman means to live on emotions, fears, pleasures, hopes, and desperations that men do not know禄.
Through art, these women force us to confront a new world, a world in which the body is not just a shell, but a powerful medium for knowing and transforming reality. Following Lea Vergine鈥檚 thought, the body is the place where people experience and feel everything, a bridge between the individual and the world, which cannot be ignored or denied. 鈥淏eing a woman鈥� is an act of rebellion, a continuous challenge against a system that limits and defines, but which these artists have been able to convert into an opportunity to redefine the boundaries of art and life.
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Galleria Fumagalli presents the exhibition Essere Donna. Il corpo come strumento di creazione e atto di ribellione [Being a Woman. The body as a medium of creation and an act of rebellion].
Inspired by the words of Oriana Fallaci, curators Maria Vittoria Baravelli and Annamaria Maggi choose to exhibit works by artists such as Marina Abramovi膰, Sang A Han, Annette Messager, Shirin Neshat, Gina Pane, and explain: 芦being a woman is not a gender, but a way of seeing the world, of experiencing conquest and loss on one鈥檚 own body禄.
Shirin Neshat, Marina Abramovi膰, Sang A Han, Annette Messager, Gina Pane: each of them has converted their body into a battlefield where they can experiment with everything, where politics, life, blood, madness and fantasy intertwine in a continuous fight against conventions.
Being a woman, as Oriana Fallaci writes, 芦is an adventure that requires such courage, a challenge that never ends禄.
Throughout history, women鈥檚 bodies have been a contested territory, a symbol to be controlled, an idea to be regulated. These artists, rebellious and disobedient, have challenged the Manichaeism of the canon, breaking the cages imposed by patriarchy and tradition. They have refused to be passive objects and have transformed themselves into active subjects, using their bodies as a medium of resistance and expression, redefining what it means to be a woman.
Their works are like 鈥渁 loaded rifle鈥� as we learn from Emily Dickinson, ready to put us against the wall and make us rethink what we thought we knew. Fallaci writes: 芦To be a woman means to live on emotions, fears, pleasures, hopes, and desperations that men do not know禄.
Through art, these women force us to confront a new world, a world in which the body is not just a shell, but a powerful medium for knowing and transforming reality. Following Lea Vergine鈥檚 thought, the body is the place where people experience and feel everything, a bridge between the individual and the world, which cannot be ignored or denied. 鈥淏eing a woman鈥� is an act of rebellion, a continuous challenge against a system that limits and defines, but which these artists have been able to convert into an opportunity to redefine the boundaries of art and life.
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