Female artists create an exhibition on menstruation. And the works are made from an ancient tampon. The photos

From September 5 to 19, 2019, menstruation takes center stage in the exhibition Women’s Blood. Traces of Red on White Cloth, scheduled at theVallisa Auditorium in Bari. Curated by Manuela De Leonardis, it showcases the works of a group of sixty-eight international women artists who were invited to participate in a choral project on menstruation centered on an object that was once used to dab the blood of menstrual flow, namely the linen cloth, a kind of ancient tampon. The works made by the artists were all created making use of this material.

The investigation took place between 2014 and 2018 and explored many aspects related to the female world that are still taboo in different parts of the world (and the West is no different): birth, puberty, menstruation, menopause, sexuality, family ties, violence, and feminicide. The linen cloth, in the hands of the artists involved, becomes “a spokesperson for reflections that go beyond gender boundaries,” reads a note: “anonymous stories, known stories, stories of ordinary everyday life, told in the first person, metabolized and reworked by sometimes resorting to metaphor, the power of irony, literary or pictorial citation, the dimension of poetry.”

The first core of the exhibition was shown in 2015 in Rome and then in 2016 in Isola del Liri (Frosinone). The exhibition, enriched with additional works, then moved to several other cities in Italy and also had two stops in Croatia. Of the project and the volume The Blood of Women | The Blood of Women. Traces of red on a white cloth | Traces of red on a white cloth, in which the works and texts written by the sixty-eight women artists are collected and realized with the support of the Pasquale Battista Foundation (Postmedia Books 2019) will also be discussed on September 6, 2019 at 7 p.m. at All Saints Church in Cuti - Valenzano (BA). The event is organized by the Associazione Triggianesi di Puglia nel mondo and will feature Annalisa Zito, Director of the Pasquale Battista Foundation, Rosanna Ventrella, President of the Associazione Triggianesi di Puglia nel mondo, Manuela De Leonardis, art historian and curator, and some of the artists who are protagonists of the project.

The sixty-eight participants in the project are Ilaria Abbiento, Manal AlDowayan, Adele Angelone, Elizabeth Aro, Wafa Bahai, Alessandra Baldoni, Carolle Bénitah, Takoua Ben Mohamed, Saša Bezjak, Tomaso Binga, Rosina Byrne, Giovanna Caimmi, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Rupa Chordia-Samdaria, Sara Ciuffetta, Lea Contestabile, Karmen Corak, Mila Dau, Vlasta Delimar, Kristien De Neve, Maria Diana, Isabella Ducrot, Nilüfer Ergin, Cristiana Fasano, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Simona Filippini, Emita Frigato, Pilar, Barbara and Stella Marina Gallas, Silvia Giambrone, Felicity Griffin Clark, Maïmouna Guerresi, Susan Harbage Page, Sasha Huber, Susan Kammerer, Fariba Karimi, EglÄ? KuckaitÄ?, Hanako Kumazawa, Silvia Levenson, Wenwen (Vivienne) Liu, Lôw (Estabrak Al Ansari, Raiya Al Rawahi, Tara Al Dughaither), Barbara Luisi, Anja Luithle, Victoria Manganiello, Florencia Martinez, Patrizia Molinari, Elly Nagaoka, Ana Maria NegarÄ?, Yasuko Oki, Novella Oliana, Sonya Orfalian, Lina Pallotta, Sara Palmieri, Chiara Pellegrin, Sofia Rocchetti, Elisa Roggio, Anna Romanello, Paola Romoli Venturi, Virginia Ryan, Cinzia Sarto, Ivana Spinelli, Silvia Stucky, Ketty Tagliatti, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Laura VdB Facchini, Maria Angeles Vila, Nicole Voltan, Ruchika Wason Singh, and Deborah Willis.

The exhibition opens daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free. The exhibition is sponsored by the Pasquale Battista Foundation under the patronage of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Industry - Management and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage of the Region of Puglia. More information can be found on the Pasquale Battista Foundation website.

Ruchika Wason Singh, Landscape 1985-2012 (I) (2015; diaper, acrylic paint and Sumi-e ink; 47 x 52 cm)

Isabella Ducrot, Blood is Red (2016; diaper, acrylic, 50 x 47 cm)

Rupa Chordia-Samdaria, Shakti (2016; diaper, acrylic painting, kumkuma powder and gold leaf, 63 x 65 cm)

Vlasta Delimar, Celebration of Menstrual Blood (2002-2016; diaper, zipper, color photograph, pins, 28 x 16 cm)

Tomaso Binga, San guè (2016; diaper, print, safety pins, 70 x 66 cm)

Takoua Ben Mohamed, My Things (2017; diaper, print, 48 x 44 cm)

Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Ricamo a due (2018; diaper, silk thread and lead, 47 x 65 cm)

Sasha Huber, Three Generation Blood Line (2016; diaper, ryon thread, 50 x 52 cm)

Maïmouna Guerresi, Red carpet (2015; diaper, pigment, 44 x 47 cm)

Ilaria Abbiento, Like the Tide (2018; diaper soaked in seawater, glass bottle, photograph, red thread, 23.5 x 11 cm)

Elizabeth Aro, Embroidery by Tadao Ando (2000/2018; diaper, embroidery threads, 58 x 54 cm)

Carolle Bénitah, j’ai honte (2018; diaper, embroidery, red thread, 15 x 26 cm)

Female artists create an exhibition on menstruation. And the works are made from an ancient tampon. The photos

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