Over one hundred shots by five great female photographers to reflect on women's identity

Soggetto nomade (Nomadic subject ) is the exhibition that the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato will open on Saturday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m., at the International Center for Photography in Palermo: through more than one hundred photographs by five great Italian women photographers, the review aims to stimulate a reflection on the identity and representation of female subjectivity in a crucial two decades in our country.

For the first time, the photographs of Paola Agosti, Letizia Battaglia, Lisetta Carmi, Elisabetta Catalano and Marialba Russo, taken between the mid-1960s and the 1980s, will be brought together, restoring from different angles the way female subjectivity is experienced, represented and interpreted in a period of great social change for Italy. Years of transition from political radicalism to hedonism, years of lead, but also years of great participation and civil conquests, which occurred mainly thanks to women and their battles.

A reflection on women’s identity and its representation: from Lisetta Carmi’s Genoese portraits to Elisabetta Catalano’s actresses, writers and artists, Paola Agosti’s photographs on the feminist movement, Letizia Battaglia’s women and little girls of a Sicily disfigured by the Mafia, and finally the men who for a day take on female identity in the carnival of small towns in Campania explored by Marialba Russo.

Although belonging to different generations, each of the female photographers presented in the exhibition confronted the social transformations of Italian society, originating highly personal reflections on the image of women.

In these years, photography is the instrument par excellence for representing a new centrality of women’s bodies and their transformations, personal experiences, and the relationship between private memory and collective history.

The photographs in the exhibition document a period of about two decades: evidence of the emergence of new expressive urgencies that offer a women’s view of women and their identity.

The exhibition is curated by Cristiana Perrella and Elena Magini and can be visited until September 22, 2019.

Image: Letizia Battaglia, The little girl with the ball, la Cala district, Palermo, 1980

Over one hundred shots by five great female photographers to reflect on women's identity

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