Liberté. Femmes magiques
An exhibition of the duo Liberté. Femmes magiques :
Riccarda Montenero - photographer
Faé A. Djéraba - plastician
©Riccarda Montenero
Sofia Valdiri
© Faé A. Djéraba + Riccarda Montenero
© Faé A. Djéraba + Riccarda Montenero
© Faé A. Djéraba
INSTALLATION
Faé A. Djéraba
Riccarda Montenero
Sofia Valdiri - a performer and a writer - has been producing works for institutional and non-conventional spaces. Her written language, like her body language, are both at once simple and poetic, making experiences tangible and profound. In 2014, the performance Eponges-Lampedusa is performed at the AdaDa space in Saint-Denis and La rama. A micro-theatre piece was performed at the first edition of the off-wall theatre festival "Regarde sous tes fenêtres/look under your windows", in the south of France. Invited by Beatriz Camargo, she wrote El ojo único monologue which was performed at the Teatro itinerante del sol in Villa de Leyva (Colombia) in February 2016. Since 2018, she has been working with a collective Point de suspensions in various projects of dramaturgy and performances. Ailes suspendues, selected in the third round of the Déclic Jeunes competition in 2019, and Submersion is the next projects she will carry on with this collective.
Sofia Valdiri performs Victim Not Guilty written and conceived by Riccarda Montenero, performed on the evening of the opening on Friday 28 February at 8.30 pm. The film is directed by Teresa Scotto di Vettimo.
"Songe, ô futur cadavre, éphémère merveille, Avec quel excès je t'aimais" [Think, O future corpse, ephemeral wonder, With what excess I loved you]
Songe, ô futur cadavre, éphémère merveille, avec quel excès je t'aimais*, is an exhibition commencing with the project Merveille de la vie realized by an arty duo titled Liberté. Femmes magiques (Liberty. Magical women.), composed by Riccarda Montenero, a photographer and a visual artist and Faé A. Djéraba, a visual artist.
The title of this show is borrowed from Poème de l'Amour by Anna de Noailles. Diverted from its context, it questions our relationship to violence which has progressively been extracted from the context of intimate spheres and terminologies linked to passions to question cultural and social systems as a whole.
Through images, an installation and performances, the exhibition delivers an investigation into the effects of violence, pain and its catharsis.
While the body is most often the first to be affected, violence is above all a wound and an offense to the mind and the soul, leading to its fracture.
The artist duo offers to observe and reflect about the re-appropriation of the psychological space in three parts: violence on the body and the mind; uprising in reaction to the realization of what has happened; and, finally, what allows emancipation and liberation.
While the project is inspired by a personal story, it echoes into a collective of histories of violence against and domination of women. As a preamble to the text for their exhibition in Turin in Fall 2019, Maria Erovereti reminds us: A woman has suffered violence, her name is Faé, her name is Riccarda, her name is Maria, she can have different names, because she is not the only one who bears scars on her own body.
In the course of reflections on the origin of violence, the figure of the violent partner has been superimposed by that of a Society as a whole that carries within itself an Evil. An evil in society that is capable of taking on various faces, on an equal level, as different as taking on a control over women's bodies, or as an economic or political imperialism, or as Man’s domination and destruction of the natural environment...
Mémoire de l'Avenir proposes through this exhibition and its theme - regularly explored in its programming - to participate in raising awareness and understanding about violence, often implemented as a system, and its consequences, through artistic and philosophical approaches.
Riccarda Montenero is graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Lecce followed with a diploma in Architecture from the University of Turin. The gardens of the Royal Palace of Turin are a home to two of her large-scale works. She participates in personal and group exhibitions also in Italy and abroad, as well as in film-video and art festivals. She regularly collaborates with artists and intellectuals on publications or multidisciplinary artistic projects.
In 2011 her work was presented in the Italian Pavilion of the 54th edition of the Venice International Biennale, directed by Vittorio Sgarbi.
She works with various mediums (photography, sculpture, digital art and film). Her artistic projects are situated within a humanistic approach, through which she seeks to bring out these that are invisible, while confronting us with the violence they often must face.
Riccarda Montenero lives and works between Paris and Turin.
Faé A. Djéraba, born in Tunisia, grew up in France and lives and works in Italy. Through her artistic practice she has been interested in questions of identities, of women issue, of their bodies, of their obsessions, of the violence they can suffer from. She is also interested in the relations between genetics and heredity. As a visual artist and designer, she works with volume, painting and sculpture, and is particularly interested in the use of fabric, linked to her family history. She has been also collaborating within the world of theatre and fashion with original scenography projects. Recently she has been working with photography, notably in the last two projects, exposed in New York City and London.
Sofia Valdiri interprets the performance Victim not guilty written by Riccarda Montenero on the evening of the opening : Friday 28th of February at 8.30 pm and projected during the exhibition through the film directed by Teresa Scotto di Vettimo.
Sofia Valdiri - a performer and a writer - has been producing works for institutional and non-conventional spaces. Her written language, like her body language, are both at once simple and poetic, making experiences tangible and profound. In 2014, the performance Eponges-Lampedusa is performed at the AdaDa space in Saint-Denis and La rama. A micro-theatre piece was performed at the first edition of the off-wall theatre festival "Regarde sous tes fenêtres/look under your windows", in the south of France. Invited by Beatriz Camargo, she wrote El ojo único monologue which was performed at the Teatro itinerante del sol in Villa de Leyva (Colombia) in February 2016. Since 2018, she has been working with a collective Point de suspensions in various projects of dramaturgy and performances. Ailes suspendues, selected in the third round of the Déclic Jeunes competition in 2019, and Submersion is the next projects she will carry on with this collective.
Marie-Cécile Berdaguer
Margalit Berriet
* Exhibition title from Poème de l'Amour d'Anna de Noailles - 1924
VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE EXHIBITION
An exhibition of the duo Liberté. Femmes magiques :
Riccarda Montenero - photographer
Faé A. Djéraba - plastician
©Riccarda Montenero
Songe, ô futur cadavre,
éphémère merveille,
Avec quel excès je t'aimais
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