Instagram censors promotional video of Natalia Goncharova exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi due to nudity

More censorship for Palazzo Strozzi: as had happened last year for the exhibition on Marina Abramović, which was hit by the axe of Facebook censorship because of the Serbian performer ’s artistic nudes, this year, too, social media is putting a spoke in the wheels of the Florentine exhibition venue. This time for the Natalia Goncharova exhibition scheduled from Sept. 28, 2019 to Jan. 12, 2020, the promotional video that Palazzo Strozzi had uploaded on Instagram was censored: the work targeted is a Model by the Russian painter, who thus suffers a new censorship more than a hundred years after the one she suffered in Russia in 1910, when the authorities blocked an exhibition of her female nudes (at the time she was accused of offending public morals and stood trial, but was later acquitted).

“As happened last year with Marina Abramović,” says Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Director General Arturo Galansino, “Natalia Goncharova, an artist of the early 20th century avant-garde, is also being censored by social media. It can be said that, after more than a century, Natalia’s work still manages to scandalize as it did in her day. On social media we constantly see nude images or videos but in this case the image of a painting that belongs to the history of modern art is blocked. This inevitably triggers a question: can an algorithm determine a principle of censorship within one of the world’s leading media and information outlets?”

Instagram censors promotional video of Natalia Goncharova exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi due to nudity

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