Curated by Paolo Cortese
Artists: Francesca Cataldi, Anna Esposito, Elisabetta Gut, Maria Lai, Gisella Meo, Renata Prunas, Alba Savoi, Franca Sonnino

At the end of the 1960s in America and Europe, almost simultaneously, liberation movements began to emerge and challenged society on various aspects. Among these was feminism which, in its broader contemporary interpretation, embraces all issues related to gender identity. Today, feminism has reemerged with revived force and urgency, reclaiming its place at the forefront of international discourse and contributing to a broader vision of care, collective responsibility and coexistence on a shared planet.

Many women artists took to the streets and participated on the front lines of demonstrations, others carried out their revolution differently, choosing to freely use what was closest and most congenial to them as a means of making art. This, on one hand, placed these courageous pioneers outside of the market, but on the other, allowed them to experiment in total autonomy with a new universe of materials, exploring their properties and sometimes pushing them to their extremes.

This exhibition is dedicated to 8 women artists who chose to use thread as the privileged medium of their art.

Franca Zoccoli, recently wrote about this subject: “Spinning, weaving, sewing have been activities tied to the female universe since the day they were invented, in the historical, or better prehistoric reality, in myth and in fairy tales, the Fates, Penelope, the Sleeping Beauty. It is a female goddess, Aracne, who personifies the spider with its cobweb: charming geometries, attractive and dangerous like those of the digital web. A needle, which carries a thread to unite different cloths, to decorate giving colours and beauty,”

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Main Section/ Hall GREEN Stand 11 / Hall BROWN Stand 12

OVAL Lingotto Fiere

Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70

Torino 10126