05/10/2022
Every year Gender Project commissions a work to an artist that will it be presented on the opening night, you will find for the installation to all the duration of the exhibition.
27-30 OCTOBER
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WE ARE SO EXCITED 💓
We are really happy to introduce to you:
Third Landscape By
Laundry, with its intimate and domestic meaning, being exhibited in a public place can turn into a silent political act of protest or irony.
In 1969 Gianni Pettena, during the Campo Urbano event in Como, exhibited a citizen's laundry in the Piazza del Duomo, questioning official places and reminding us that they are mainly spaces for the display of power.
In 1991 in Palermo, citizens displayed sheets on their balconies protesting the death of Giovanni Falcone, assassinated by the Mafia.
In 2001 during the G8, the Berlusconi government banned the citizens of Genoa from hanging their laundry for public decorum. In response, some citizens displayed their laundry despite the fines.
For the Gender Project exhibition, a series of bed sheets will fill a room in , Berlin.
On each of them, the names of the characters collected in the book 'Canone Ambiguo' by .starita will be sewn. The work is an analysis of the 'anarchic, incorrect, monstrous' Italian q***r literature of the 20th century that is often deliberately forgotten and where the characters expressed themselves by "hiding among the words that could not be pronounced."
A collective landscape of censored or self-censored intimacies will unveil personal, repressed and concealed universes through the hanging sheets, offering a different perspective on an imposed culture to reflect on again. The laundry displayed as a political act in cities such as Como, Palermo, Genoa, and now Berlin will highlight on a topography a 'third landscape' of social margins. In the words of Gilles Clément: "These margins collect a biological diversity that is not yet classified as wealth."
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