(ANSA) – LONDON, 03 DEC – Women of different generations, united by the use of the photographic medium as an instrument of personal emancipation and political investigation. They are the protagonists of ‘Through the female gaze: women and work in Italy from the 1950s’, the exhibition curated by Maria Chiara Di Trapani which opens today at the Italian Cultural Institute in London and can be visited until 23 December . Over 100 images are exhibited in a path that takes shape from the archives of 12 authors and two collectives, together with a reasoned choice from the Donata Pizzi Collection and prints from the UDI Archive (Union of Italian Women) in Bologna.
Some of the photographers at the center of the exhibition are known to the general public and have received great international recognition, such as Letizia Battaglia, the first woman to direct a photographic team for a newspaper like L’Ora, for which she has documented the murders of the mafia war in Palermo; Lisetta Carmi, known for her series “I travestiti” (1965), one of the first photographic works dedicated to the gender issue in Italy, while on this occasion the shots dedicated to the workers of the port of Genoa and of the cork factories in Sardinia. The British public also has the opportunity to see for the first time Paola Agosti’s ethnographic reportage, ‘Images from the world of the vanquished’, and the series ‘The Woman and the Machine’ (1983), as well as Gabriella’s photojournalistic services. Mercadini, militant photographer and historical collaborator of Noi Donne and the newspaper Il Manifesto, who was committed to shooting strikes, parades and demonstrations on film, focusing on the themes of women’s emancipation in the 70s. After all, the search for the self between female identity and social roles is the main theme of artistic experimentation in the same decade. As did Nicole Gravier, Alessandra Spranzi, Liliana Barchiesi, who with their shots suspended between happenings and studio portraits, disguise, make-up and camouflage have questioned gender myths and clichés. (HANDLE).
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