An Art of One's Own

A Room of One's Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf published for the first time in 1929 and based on two conferences held in Newnham and Girton, women's colleges at Cambridge University in 1928.
Parafrasandone the title, the exhibition's An Art of One's Own is born from the work of 10 Artist whose research requires the intimacy of a place, of a "room" in which vehicular embroidery, drawing, wax, writing.

Overturning the concept further, the work of the artist divas nta the room in which the user is "accepted"; while in vo tempted to deconstruct patriarchal language, the Artist propose a work devoid anger due to the exclusion of the art world active, privileging the aspect of artistic research altogether.

Far from a work of protest and radical feminism, the work of 10 artists, declined with more or less violence or transgression, albeit from different eras, refers instead to a kind of post-patriarchy, b en concept outlined by the German philosopher Heide Goettner- Abendroth in his essay The matriarchal societies, in which the term refers to the concept of "early mothers", the oldest meaning of arché which concerns the question of the origin, the beginning.

The shape of a matriarchal society provides a balanced economy (economic independence p aventata by Woolf in the essay) and, at the social level, the matrilineal descent within a context of horizontal not hierarchical. And finally, in a strong spiritual inclination that runs through every aspect of life and that rests on the divine feminine.

So a contemporary work and attitude, and far advanced compared to the allegations of Woolf that "none of the great writers had children" or refer to the impossibility of women to be able to get a place in society.

Artists:
Carla Accardi, Irma Blank, Dadamaino, Angiola Cats, Andi Kacziba, Maria Lai, Elena Modorati, Carol Rama, Elisabeth Scherffig, Eva Sørensen

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