
Fotografia da performance estemporanea
La performance riflette sull’identità femminile, sul martirio moderno, sulla sovrapposizione tra l’eroina storica e la donna contemporanea, ancora oggi esposta, giudicata, sacrificata.
In questa posa estrema eppure tragicamente quotidiana, la mia "Giovanna" non brucia, ma cade. Non muore, ma si offre, con crudele sincerità, allo sguardo urbano.
Photograph from an impromptu performance
This performance explores themes of feminine identity, modern martyrdom, and the overlapping of historical icons with contemporary womanhood—still exposed, judged, and sacrificed.
In this pose—extreme yet tragically familiar—my “Joan” does not burn, but falls. She does not die, but offers herself, with raw honesty, to the urban gaze.
Questo è il coro che accompagna ogni donna che osa uscire dai ruoli previsti.
Ho deciso di raccoglierlo, parola per parola. Perché anche il disprezzo è un documento del nostro tempo."
After my performance, I didn’t just receive applause or questions: I received a chorus.
A violent, ironic, paternalistic, sexist, angry chorus.
This is the chorus that follows every woman who dares to step outside the roles assigned to her.
I chose to collect it, word for word. Because even contempt is a document of our time."
-"There’s no need for a woman to show certain things."
-"How vulgar, this isn’t what it means to be a woman."
-"A woman should show her brain."
-"She just wants to get famous by showing her pussy."
-"Then we complain about how we’re treated."
-"If she does this kind of thing, she’s obviously sleeping around."
-"Shameful—this shows no respect for women or for yourself."
-"Is your husband proud of you?"
-"You’re mentally ill."
-"What a feminist, guys!"
-"You didn’t need to be so explicit."
-"I can’t stand this kind of exhibitionism. Or these exhibitionists."
-"You clearly like showing it off. Do you give it away for free?"
-"I’m ashamed even in front of my gynecologist—you must have issues."
-"Then they complain when someone touches them."
-"I saw you last night, lifting your skirt and showing it off outside my bar."
-"From the kind of work you do, I thought you were a lesbian."
-"You should come out as a lesbian, otherwise people will think you’re a slut."