Artist goes to Venice Film Festival in Afghan wedding dress: 'solidarity with women'

She appeared at the Venice Film Festival in typical Afghan wedding dress to highlight the issue of women’s rights in Afghanistan. This is what Elisa Morucci, a Florentine artist who was a guest at the 78th Venice Biennale International Film Festival last night, did for the screening of Ennio. A Maestro, the documentary by Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore dedicated to composer Ennio Morricone. Morucci, who has long collaborated with Tornatore (she has also played some parts in his films), wore the traditional Afghan wedding dress for the occasion as a sign of solidarity with the women fighting in Kabul and the rest of the country.

“By wearing this Afghan wedding dress,” said the artist, “I want to express my solidarity with all the women who, in recent weeks, in Kabul and many other provinces of Afghanistan, have taken to the streets, barefaced, risking their own safety, determined to assert the rights they have won over the past two decades and which, at the present time, with the return of the Taliban regime, are rapidly crumbling. The situation that has arisen in that battered country is untenable: women are barricaded in their homes, girls will soon no longer be able to study or even simply play sports. Years of crucial struggles are in danger of being lost in a vacuum. The empathy and compassion that we should all feel by default, for each other, in the age of globalization, where thanks to the media, everything is within everyone’s reach, become a moral duty, which must transfer into concrete actions, from which no one can escape, without losing himself something crucial to his own existence.”

Born in Florence, Elisa Morucci carries out her artistic activity between Florence, Pietrasanta, Carrara and Greve in Chianti. In 1996 she obtained her first title of Master of Art. She studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Florence; after graduation, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. Since late 2016, she has been working at a foundry in Pietrasanta, making her bronze works. After her debut with a solo exhibition at the “Science and Technology Foundation” in Florence, held between February and March 2018, the artist has been invited to participate in numerous events. The latest solo show is Opere Spiritus, held at the Palazzo Chigi in San Quirico d’Orcia (Siena) from Oct. 13 to Nov. 15, 2018, where the sculptor exhibited a selection of bronzes made in 2017 in which the phases of the alchemical process, according to the Florentine artist, are investigated, similar to those of the sculptural process. Morucci is also known for having presented, last June, the bronze bust depicting Paolo Rossi, the soccer champion who passed away in December 2020, which this fall will be placed in the immediate vicinity of the sports field of Santa Lucia, in Prato, where Rossi began his competitive career that led him to win the World Championship in 1982 in Spain. Elisa Morucci’s work is made up of diverse figurative referents that sum up art-historical studies, anthropological research, personal investigations in ancestral cultures and work on herself.

Artist goes to Venice Film Festival in Afghan wedding dress: 'solidarity with women'

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