FOTOGRAFIA E FEMMINISMI. Stories and images from Collezione Donata Pizzi
On Saturday 5 October 2024 at 11:00, the Fondazione Sabe per l’arte presents FOTOGRAFIA E FEMMINISMI. Stories and images from Collezione Donata Pizzi, a group exhibition curated by Federica Muzzarelli, realised in collaboration with the FAF Research Group/Department of Arts, University of Bologna, as part of the PRIN 2020 Project “Italian Feminist Photography”.
Starting with a selection of images from Collezione Donata Pizzi, the exhibition FOTOGRAFIA E FEMMINISMI brings into dialogue the work of different generations of women photographers and artists working in the Italian scene over the last fifty years. In particular, the group show focuses on the ideal persistence, the cultural heritage and, at the same time, the development and changes of the image and presence of women through the junctions offered by four main thematic nuclei: Family Albums, Gender Identity, Stereotypes and Domestic Spaces, Roles and Social Censorships.
It does so by juxtaposing, in a parallel montage that concretely reveals continuities and dissonances, the works of historic female artists such as Liliana Barchiesi, Lisetta Carmi, Lucia Marcucci, Paola Mattioli and Tomaso Binga, with works by Martina Della Valle, Giulia Iacolutti, Moira Ricci, Alessandra Spranzi and Alba Zari. The exhibition is completed by an anastatic reproduction of some maquettes from the iconic feminist collective volume Ci vediamo mercoledì. Gli altri giorni ci immaginiamo (1978) and a selection of publications and catalogues tracing the exhibition and design history of Collezione Donata Pizzi.
The exhibition is also a tale within a tale: that of a pioneering and far-sighted initiative that led Donata Pizzi to start a path to highlight and promote the work of Italian women artists and photographers that today takes on the contours of an exceptional historical and cultural heritage.
