At the National Gallery in Rome, a large women-only group show reflects on feminism

At the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, Io dico Io - I say I opened on March 1, a group exhibition curated by Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte and Paola Ugolini that will remain open until May 23, 2021.

Conceived as an open investigation of the present, the exhibition eliminates schematisms and preordained statutes, tracing a non-linear path: in fact, it is proposed as a narrative that collects stories, glances, imaginaries, whether it is a selfie, a self-portrait, an adventure. The protagonists are Italian women artists of different generations who in different historical and social contexts have told their own adventure of authenticity, returning through a set of visions their own way of inhabiting the world.

Self-representation, the gaze that questions roles, writing as practice and self-narrative, the body as measure, limit, trespassing, and resistance to homologation are some of the themes around which the exhibition revolves : a layered journey that overturns points of view and creates new visions and narratives.

The title, freely taken from Carla Lonzi, stems from the need to take the floor and speak in the first person in order to affirm one’s subjectivity, composing a single multitude, a multiplicity of selves that resonates with consonances and dissonances.

The exhibition escapes any retrospective gaze and stands in the present; it does not invent new words, but looks deeply into the word"feminism," presenting different and singular ways of fleshing it out.

From the central hall, the exhibition relates to Time is Out of Joint and is connected to the path that presents for the first time to the public the materials of theCarla Lonzi Archive, which can be consulted online at Google Arts & Culture at g.co/womenup. In the section dedicated to the Archive, the radical thought of the art critic and feminist theorist dialogues with two new productions created for the occasion by Italian women artists and with the works of women artists belonging to the National Gallery’s collection, revealing the multiple and unprecedented possibilities of reading an internationally recognized figure in the history of art and the thought of feminism.

The following are the artists in the exhibition: Carla Accardi, Pippa Bacca, Vanessa Beecroft, Elisabetta Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Irma Blank, Renata Boero, Monica Bonvicini, Benni Bosetto, Chiara Camoni, Ludovica Carbotta, Lisetta Carmi, Monica Carocci, Gea Casolaro, Adelaide Cioni, Daniela Comani, Daniela De Lorenzo, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Federica Di Carlo, Rä di Martino, Isabella Ducrot, Bruna Esposito, Cleo Fariselli, Giosetta Fioroni, Jacky Fleming, Linda Fregni Nagler, Silvia Giambrone, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Beatrice Meoni, Marisa Merz, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Camilla Micheli, Marzia Migliora, Elisa Montessori, Maria Morganti, Liliana Moro, Alek O., Marinella Pirelli, Paola Pivi, Antonietta Raphaël, Anna Raimondo, Carol Rama, Marta Roberti, Suzanne Santoro, Marinella Senatore, Ivana Spinelli, Alessandra Spranzi, Grazia Toderi, Tatiana Trouvé, Francesca Woodman.

I say I- I say I has the support of Dior.

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At the National Gallery in Rome, a large women-only group show reflects on feminism

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