THEPatriarchy still fuels old and new gender stereotypes to define women’s lives, conditioning their desires and limiting their freedom, justifying physical and psychological violence. At that time the body takes on a political meaning for new questions and difficult balances that concern the entire female gender, in this and other worlds: by changing latitude, only the degree of oppression changes. Extraordinary it is a challenge to gender stereotypes that transforms the paradigm of the woman-victim into a cultural and political reference model. Protagonists of our present, they accepted the invitation to stage the photographic portrait to make this exhibition a unique body of faces and voices, a weaving of memories, confidences and dedications.
A worn gray cloth and the luminous device have designed a room, the intimate space in which, with the photography of Ilaria Magliocchetti Lombi, we gave life to a whirlwind of relationships.
To realize Extraordinary it took more than two years of research, contacts, filming and interviews.
In this time, marred by global tragedies, Michela Murgia, who knew how to stigmatize gender stereotypes like no other, has left us, but her thoughts and words, today more necessary than ever, shake and illuminate consciences.
Extraordinary is a project born as part of the Terre des Hommes #indifesa campaign: an invitation to discover the multitude of possibilities that each of us contains, retying a thread that has never been broken and which, from the instances of feminist thought, arrives at contemporary transfeminism, where gender itself becomes the theme of the discussion.
The exhibition is an invitation to girls and boys to follow the flow of words and the free and circular path along which the images run, to observe and listen to the sentimental investigation of this choral tale.
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The photographic exhibition Extraordinary. Protagonists of the present will be open to the public in Rome, at the Extra MAXXI space, from Wednesday 13 September to Friday 6 October.
The project, curated by Renata Ferri with images created by Ilaria Magliocchetti Lombi, brings together more than 100 portraits and voices of Italian women from many areas of contemporary society. More than 100 professionals who, with their journey, demonstrate many different and all possible ways of asserting themselves and realizing their ambitions despite and beyond prejudice and discrimination.
The exhibition is part of the defenseless campaign that Terre des Hommes has been carrying out for 12 years now protection of the rights of girls in Italy and around the worldthrough concrete projects in the field, but also awareness-raising initiatives such as Straordinarie, to address institutions and the general public and support a culture of respect and inclusion against all gender prejudice and discrimination.
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