When I was 13 is the artwork I made for the project Il sangue delle donne. Tracce di rosso sul panno bianco. , curated by Manuela De Leonardis, that brings together the work of more than 14 female artists on a delicate subject that is still a taboo today. The intention is to celebrate an event that occurs since the beginning of the world and turn the contempt for the female body into vitality.
When I was 13 is related to my body of work M.
When I was 13 I became a woman.
When my mother was 13 learned to do cross-stitch, at the sewing classes for tomorrow' good wives.
When my grandmother was 13, she cut her long tresses and she was no longer a child.
This canvas has been embroidered together with my sister, my uncle and my mother, with my grandmother's (fake) hair. Braiding the threads that tie the female memory of my family, I choose the canvas as a place, a map, an uterus, to confirm my belonging, and at the same time to refuse the past social conventions that used to define what it means being and becoming a woman.
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Opening Focus Photography Festival, 9th March
I'll be in Mumbai for the opening of Focus Photography Festival, 9th March. My work 'M.' is part of the 'Autobiography as Memory' collective exhibition.
Autobiography As Memory
9th March 2017
Focus Photography Festival
MUMBAI
▻ Museum Plaza, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, 91A Rani Baug, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Byculla (East)
M. selected for Focus Festival Mumbai
M. will be exhibited during Focus Photography Festival Mumbai in March 2017, theme 'Autobiography as Memory'.