2023-11-13 07:00:00
Time.news – “Until we are free” is the title of an exhibition inaugurated in Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia and dedicated to the dramatically current theme of female condition in the worldwith a particular focus on Iran.
The title of the exhibition is a quotation in the feminine form of the title of the book by Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and pacifist exiled since 2009, first Muslim woman to receive, in 2003, the Nobel prize for Peace for its efforts for democracy and human rights, particularly of women, children and refugees. Twenty years later, another activist, Narges Mohammadi, was awarded by the Nobel Academy while she is in prison, precisely for her battle against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all “.
Until we are free, we read in a note from the organizers, a line of research and in-depth analysis promoted since 2019 by the Brescia Musei Foundation continues and expands, which has chosen to investigate geo-political contexts of pressing relevance through the perspective and production of contemporary artists. The spaces of the Santa Giulia Museum, which has always been hospitable towards breakthrough scientific and cultural projects, are now occupied by the works of artists from different places on the planet, but in particular by Iranian artists Sonia Balassanian, Farideh Lashai, Shirin Neshat, Soudeh Davoud and Zoya Shokoohi.
The exhibition offers the opportunity to reflect on the female condition around the world, showing situations in which human rights are trampled upon. It is “an unprecedented collective with original portfolios for Italy, of the highest caliber, of artists never exhibited in our country”. The exhibition itinerary of Until we are free will be opened by the video installation Becoming (2015) by the Iranian Morteza Ahmadvand, who with this work reflects on the possible coexistence between cultures and the need to abolish distinctions and hierarchies between peoples and individuals.
Three videos projected on as many screens, each of which corresponds to one of the symbols three major Abrahamic religions: the Christian cross, a Star of David and a cube depicting the Islamic Kaaba, here ideally united in a sphere that refers to the Earth. The work of the only male artist exhibited in the exhibition immediately gives way to an exhibition entirely dedicated to female artists, the French-Moroccan Leila Alaoui, who died from serious injuries sustained during the terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou while working for an Amnesty commission International, the Pakistani Hangama Amiri, the Ukrainian Zhanna Kadyrova, the Albanian Iva Lulashi, the African-American Mequitta Ahuja, the Brazilian Sonia Gomes and the Nigerian Otobong Nkanga, the Chinese-American Hung Liu, the Indian Shilpa Gupta and the American of Nigerian origins Toyin Ojih Odutola, the French-American Anne de Carbuccia, the Nigerian Marcellina Akpojotor, the Turkish Kurd Zehra Doan, the South African Zanele Muholi, the Malawian artist Billie Zangewa. The exhibition continues with Iranian artists, and ends with two “site specific” works that the young Zoya Shokoohi created during a residency in Brescia.
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