Launching 'I say I'

A new exhibition on how self-portraits give women artists a voice

What is I say I?

The Self As The Last Unknown

Introducing a new exhibition based on a text by Carla Lonzi

The quest for authenticity

Exploring identity, from the self-portrait to the selfie

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Post Production

Linda Fregni Nagler brings ancient archival images back to life

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A Challenge to the Limits

Carla Accardi and her tireless research for meaning in the visual arts

Meet the artists

11 women artists tell their stories

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Meet Beatrice Meoni

An artist and set designer who investigates the body

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Meet Monica Carocci

A photographer of imaginary spaces

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Meet Liliana Moro

Transforming the personal into universal through sculpture

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Meet Cleo Fariselli

The artist suggests listening to yourself

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Meet Silvia Giambrone

On deep diving into taboos and universal questions

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Meet Marta Roberti

How she looks at nature as a perfect example of artistic practice

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Meet Elisabetta Benassi

A free-spirited artist

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Meet Anna Raimondo

Listening as an artistic and political practice

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Meet Rä Di Martino

Martino imprints shared memories in her photographs

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Meet Ludovica Carbotta

On using the body as a measure of urban space

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Meet Daniela De Lorenzo

Self-portraits between sculpture and photography

Say it your way

The different ways women artists take the floor and speak for themselves

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From Bedroom to Darkroom

See how Francesca Woodman explored the people's relationship with space

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Photographing the Trans Community

Lisetta Carmi explores how the trans-community anticipated new roles for men and women in the '70s

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An Upside Down World

The topsy-turvy photography of Rä di Martino

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A Dreamlike Reality

Monica Carocci's snapshots of memories resurfacing from the depths

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A Wild, Bearded Woman

The comfortable portrait by Alessandra Spranzi

Handle with care

Stories told in delicate pencil strokes

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The Importance of the Gaze

Discover Giosetta Fioroni's innovative work

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Brushstrokes Painting the Female Body

Follow Beatrice Meoni's depictions and gestures

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Using the Grotesque

Chiara Camoni explores this path for her vivid portraits

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Facing Isolation Through Portraits

Marta Roberti's work during lockdown

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Short Hair and Wedding Gowns

Pippa Bacca and Camilla Micheli's work

Criticizing Stereotypes

The last years of Ketty La Rocca's career

The construction of an image

How colors and shades tell who you are

Give your word

The artists find new ways to express themselves through words

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Simone Weil in Handwriting

The philosopher's notebooks handcopied by the artist Sabrina Mezzaqui

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Shifting Gender in Western Literature

Daniela Comani re-titles the classics from a different gender perspective

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I Am What I Am Missing

Liliana Moro shapes terracotta into a life-like sculpture

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Herstory

With a simple pun Maria Adele Del Vecchio challenges established perspective

Living in the art

Explore the installations looking at things in a new way

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Art With a Message

Marinella Senatore uses traditional inspirations to bring the political and social into her art

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Investigating Contrast and Ambiguity

How Benni Bosetto conveys complexity with hyperlinks

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New Context for Everyday Objects

Tatiana Trouvé creates unexpected scenic designs

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Walking Again

Rossella Biscotti's journey through the simple gesture of walking

The naked truth

How the body can be a field of artistic experimentation

Depicting yourself

Discover the unexpected subjects of a self-portrait

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Art As Self-Healing

Shocking images of inert material and bodies drawn with the delicate strokes of watercolor

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Paintings of the Early Twentieth Century

The colors and expressionist features of Raphaël Mafai's painting

Material world

Find out how objects can tell us a lot about ourselves

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Thousands of Artificial Pearls

Irony and the desire for challenge transform works of art into playful experiences

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The Mirror Is Staring Back at You

Marzia Migliora's love songs and listening acts

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The Artist Is a Machine

Current events burst into Elisabetta Benassi's self-portraits

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Pop Ready-Made

Images of power representing the role of women in society

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A Search For the Invisible

Behind the surface of a self-portrait

Virtual connections

Digital and analogical links trace a new image of the world

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The Others Are Us

The connected world of Gea Casolao

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Coded Archeology

An app to recover a language of the Neolithic era

Treading the stage

The performance art examining the self

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Action Beyond Time

Laura Grisi's spirals take us to a time that is always in motion

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Memory Is a Construction

Alek O. represents time as a transformation, a poetic word, an artwork

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Ritual Gestures

A performance to describe the mother, the wife, the artist

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Monowe: an Imaginary City

Performative actions turned into a fictional urban space

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Private Action

With half-light images Marinella Pirelli documents the performance of Luciano Fabro on Carla Lonzi

Maps and landscapes

How much can a space tell about us?

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A Hand That Knows More Than the Eye

Look closely at delicate landscapes inspired by Chinese culture

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How Does Public Space Remind Us of Our Gender Position?

Discover Anna Raimondo's sound and feminist maps

Launching 'I say I'

Opening a Feminist Archive

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