CI we are all – women grappling with the complexity of Days divided between washing machines, children, husbands and dreams – in the shots of Malena Mazzaphotographer and director known in the panorama of fashion and contemporary art. A female universe explored in three exhibitions which have been set up in three different locations but which seem to be stages of a single experience: that of dialogue with ourselves that we often refer because we miss everything. Time, energy, compassion towards our needs.
By Dubai (as part of the World Art Dubai) in Turin (For the event The Phairfrom 9 to 11 May) up in Milan (Galleria Visconti, from 15 to 25 May): the works of Malena Mazza are characterized by a fusion of aesthetics and narration that invite to reflect on contemporary and universal themes.
The main theme is that of female life told through the provocation. In Dubai, the goal captures the image of an independent woman where the female body is represented as an object of desire.
In Turinthe title of the exposure is Female cultural socio -cultural development in recent decades And it is a project that wants to be one criticism of the female condition in contemporary society, dominated by a consumer male model where the woman is represented as a subject and object. What emerges is the persistence of phenomena such as violence, de-stabilization, de-subjectivation and de-inter-lurritorialization, which affect every type of woman who, in the words of Mcluhan, becomes “prosumer” (neologism that means producer + consumer): we are all unhappy car in the consumer society in essence and the photographic art of Malena Mazza reflects on this condition against the struggle of women against women against women against women This system that oppresses them.
In Milan, the exhibition Women are an elastic, Also for the choice of the location, it wants to transmit only a message: break with the conventions and make art increasingly accessible to everyone. Behind each shot there are a thousand lives in one, which become the contradictions of the woman in search of perfection, beauty, elegance, but still in the race towards home, children, cuisine, husbands. Women, wives, mothers dedicated within the home, but also sucked in by work, success, fashion and appearing. Women who in stiletto heels wear rubber gloves to wash in the kitchen, at the supermarket dressed in bride with on foot sneakers, women to polish the oven in a long evening dress. Frantic lives, Funambole. Female portraits in balance because strong, sweet and elastic. Eclectic. Women are asked to always live to the maximum and art now wants to forgive them if they ever choose the way of the compromise: take care of yourself, first of all.
How not to thank Malena Mazza who has transformed her editorial and advertising works into works of art to invite us to love us?
Bolognese of origin, attends the Cinema school In Milan, he works alongside Michelangelo Antonioni and the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. He then approaches photography in the last 40 years, participates in two editions of the Venice Biennale, exhibits at the Museum of Science and Technique and at the Milan Triennale but also to Art Basel, Arte Fiera Bologna and Mia Fair in Milan.
If they ask us to be perfect, glamorous and sexy – these exhibitions tell us – let’s try, of course. But let’s do it with Buddha’s smile, the conscious one of the imperfect flow of life.
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